# My column went up early...
It wasn't really supposed to be up until Friday, and I doubt you'll find any links to it anywhere on MSDN until next week, but you lucky readers of my blog can check out the next installment of Coding4Fun on MSDN now...

# <font face="Arial">[Checking My E-Mail](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun03282003.asp)

<font face="Arial">Duncan MackenzieMicrosoft Developer Network

<font face="Arial">March 26, 2003

<font face="Arial"><b class="le">Summary:</b> Duncan Mackenzie describes how to build a tool that uses the System.Net namespace of the Microsoft .NET Framework to check a POP3 e-mail account for unread messages. (15 printed pages)



Big thanks to [Darren](https://dotnetweblogs.com/DNeimke/) for testing an early build of my code sample... and I'm very sorry that it set his machine on fire.