Due to the widespread of worms and virii, Microsoft did implement a security lock down on e-mail since 2002. This also includes the lock down on the programmatic access of e-mail. First, e-mails cannot be sent through Outlook, Outlook Express, MAPI or even CDO (if it depends on MAPI). Second, access to e-mail in Inbox through API has been limited as well. Third, some certain attachment types cannot be opened inside Outlook. This has created a lot of problems in automating e-mail sending and receiving...

I know that I might be whining but sometimes I really hate XML. I totally agreed that XML is very useful since it allows us to express hierarchical or unstructured information in the form that human and machine can understand. However, what I really hate is more about XML API. It seems that any XML API that I used before isn't intuitive enough to handle complex XML document including namespace and multi-layer XML document. Sometimes, I spent a long time just to find out how to do it using XML API...

Gmail has already been offering Pop3 access to its GMail account while Hotmail just stopped doing it for free. Update: To find how to configure POP3 with GMail, you need to login to Gmail and go through GMail POP3 help in help page

Chris Sells pointed out that there is an impressive way to distribute CV. http://213.186.36.10/~al/al