I'm trying a little g-mail experiment at my school. I'm going to open a g-mail account, and see how many 2 line e-mails it can hold. I'm just starting to learn VB, and I have no clue how to even start this project. I'm hoping some of the awesome minds out there on the forms can help me.

There are other ways to mass email, try using this script from HotScript.com
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/21057.html
Its a PHP mass emailer, so you can do it without programing a VB application.

Hmm, because of the obvious potential for abuse, I'm not going to help you with such a project. However, I will offer this small piece of advice - look up RFC 821, aka. the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol specification, and put the time and effort into learning how to control this protocol (it is, as the name implies, reasonably simple).

Hi

Exactly as Spectre said,there is a lot of potential for abuse.Look up specified RFC's,and spend a lot of time learning how SMTP protocol works,and then try to make a mass emailer.

Let me add another,let's say,sugestion.You are wondering how many 2 line emails,can gmail account hold.Aside the fact that it is very odd thing to wonder about,you can calculate it mathematicaly,and it's very simple,and perhaps faster than mass emailing.Maybe gmail has some mass email protection,did you think about that?Anyway,here's what I suggest you do.

Say you write two lines,at 256 characters in length,that's 512 bytes + 2 for new line, that 514 bytes for body of the message,consisting of 2 lines.Let's say that RFC-822 headers take up about 300 more bytes,let's round the number,headers take up 510 bytes,which gives us message length of exactly 1024 bytes,or 1 kilobyte.Average gmail mailbox size is (and it's increasing every moment) is about 2.5 GB.Pretty big huh?



And there you have it,gmail mailbox can hold about 2 milion 2-line emails (2,621,440 to be exact)

I hope this satisfied your curiousity,and been helpful at the same time.At least,now you know you can use RFC-822 for research too.

Cheers