message format for mail-in databases?

[Mike Eggleston]

I have a database that I want to send messages to from external systems,
but I'm having trouble with the format of the message to send to the
database. If I have three fields, field[1-3], where the first field is
text, the second field is a date and the third field is multi-line text,
how do I format the message for sending?

To: data...@server.domain.com

Subject: ignored

field1: here is a category
field2: 19970710035541
field3: does the text start on this line
or on this line
is this the third line, starting from the field statement, or is it the
second?

Any ideas?

TIA

Mike