>Hi,
>
>Is it possible to email without using the MAPI controls - i.e. post messages straight to (for example) Outlook?
>
>I do not want to connect to the internet for each email. Just once per day.
>
>Regards,
>
>Kev

for your "outlook" example, you can just use OLE automation
and enter new emails to that
as a general way of doing this you can just write new msgs to a table
and when the user hit the "send" button read that table and create all you emails in "batch" mode

Arnon