Dick: A few things about sending email:
1. If I recall, Outlook Express may not fully support the MAPI standard. I recall having trouble with this years ago. In more recent times all the clients that we do email for use the full blown Outlook. 2. I send emails using VB scripts -- I create the email in a file and then use the script to fire it off. In one instance I found that if A) Outlook wasn't open and B) I programmed the system to display the formatted message (in Outlook) before sending, when the user hit the send button the message would stay in the Outbox until the user actually opened Outlook. If I don't need to show the message to the user without sending, it all works fine. I solved the problem by actually showing the user Outlook as well as the message -- that caused it to send as soon as the user hit SEND. 3. Other people have suggested sending via the server directly using SMTP. I think SMTP and client program emails have different uses -- SMTP doesn't require any mail client on the computer and bypasses any misconfiguration issues, but sometimes requires control of the server to allow anonymous emailing. Client program emails have the advantage (where it is an advantage) of keeping a copy of the email in the user's SENT folder -- it becomes part of their email workflow. I have scripts to deal with both situations. Let me know if you want to mess around with the VB scripts that I have, I'm happy to share. -- Larry
