>>Understand - some consumer ISP's are reluctant to allow a node SMTP client to send too many emails. And some - depending on how they're routed - are slow to receive. I think what is happening is that the object is being recreated and initialized for every mail.
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>The problem occurs only when sending emails using pure VFP code using code from http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~SendSmtpEmail#winsock
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>I found that the problem is in line
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nWait = WSAWaitForMultipleEvents(1, @hEventRead,;
>			0, 1000, 0)

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>This causes ALWAYS 1 second delay, even if data is received immediately.
>Any idea how to fix this ?

Experiment with the parameters - my guess is that 1000 means milliseconds.