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The DOS package with Demon has a feature that lists each of your 
mailboxes and show how many unread messages are present. Does anyone now 
how this works? I tried to write a little application in Visual Basic to 
do the same, and variations in mail headers always seem to fool it.

I opened each *.txt file of email and read it line by line as follows:

      Input #1, a$
      If Left$(a$, 11) = "Message-Id:" Then validated = 0
      If Left$(a$, 13) = "Content-Type:" And validated = 0 Then
         validated = 1: c = c + 1
      end if
      If Left$(a$, 9) = "Status: R" And validated Then
        c = c - 1: validated=0
      End If

c is the count of unread messages. It is incremented each time a message 
is validated and decremented again if it has been read as flagged by the 
NewsWin Status insertion.
 
Maybe I am doing something stupid, but I can be attempting the 
impossible as the DOS package already does it.

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