email gateway INTO database record?

OK. I've spent years getting data out of databases and doing stuff with it. Now I'm stumped.

I need to have a server receive an email and insert it into a database.

I can use Access, SQL Server 2003 or MySQL.

The mail server can be bypassed, have the MX records point directly to the webserver. No other emails on the domain need to be addressed, split up, etc.

I don't mind some really creative solution, like getting weird with server variables.

The closest thing I can think of so far is having a web-connected client constantly hitting the site to run a parse on an iMail page or something.

I can not install any utilities on the server. (Big hosting company)

I could run the email receive and post bit on a different server, if there is some service that could receive my email and submit it to MY database on my server.

I think what I need is like the opposite of CDONTS or ASPmail or ASPemail or something. Something that goes in the opposite direction. Maybe some listserv program out there could do this?

Possibly some mail servers can be queried like a database? Maybe I could just run a query from an ASP page thru a POP3 connection into a mail server? (How do the web based email readers like web2mail.com do it?)

ANY bright ideas on this would be helpful, including "get this off of the Mail Server board and put it in the IIS board" or "can you explain this better?" or whatever.

Thanks,

--David

David,

did you ever find a solution to your problem?