VB Forum / COM / December 2005

Hey all,

I'm making a program that downloads my email.  Problem is the email
contains carriage returns.

When my winsock _dataArrival event is triggered, I use winsock.getData
myBuffer.  But during run-time when I hold my cursor over the variable
and the tooltip that shows the value comes up, myBuffer ends up only
containing "+OK email reads " and then two boxes (the character that
appears when there are cr's in the string).

I put in a clipboard.settext, and when i paste in notepad, I get the
entire email - just what I want.  So mybuffer DOES contain the entire
email, but the instr() returns 0 when the email clearly contains the
text "saf".

My question is this: how can I get the whole email in a string?

Here's my code:

-----
Private Sub tcpSock_DataArrival(ByVal bytesTotal As Long)

   Dim mybuffer As String
   tcpSock.GetData mybuffer
   commandLoc = InStr(1, mybuffer, "saf")
   Clipboard.SetText (mybuffer)
-----

Result: commandLoc = 0

Thanks
IWP506