There're many different ways to send emails and it's up to you to deside which one is the best in your environment. See http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~AutomatedEmail~VFP

>I need to email from my application in 2 ways:
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>1) Email using a user's mail account. This is email that users send manually.
> - What method is best to do this?
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>2) Email using an email server (outlook probably). This will be automated bulk email. Basically here I create mail records and let the mail server send them and I need a return code from the server for each email to update my database.
> - What method is best to do this?
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