Hi, Craig.

>I'm currently researching a new project where I need to send a message to a user when specific conditions exist. The preference is to use email, but I don't think that would work. I cannot require the customer to install their email client on the PC doing the work, nor setup an email address for the process. I've thought of doing a NET SEND. Any other ideas?

If your users will have an application running under your control, you can use some kind of popup mechanism. If you need the alert to be real time (guess not if you considered email) you may use winsock. Otherwise, a check to a table/inbox would do it.

If the users won't have some specific app running or not something under your control, you should rely on som OS service, like a NetSend or Windows Messenger (but thay have to have it set up, also).

Can you give us more details of the situation?

Regards,