>>>>What I'm trying to do is automatically place a programatically generated email into the sent-mail folder of the account that is authenticated on the SMTP server as the sender of the message. The message sending works fine. I would just like to have the sent message be archived as if somebody had typed it into an email client.
>>>>
>>>>The CDO send method allegedly takes an optional parameter "savecopy". I have noticed that the send method in CDO flips an error in VFP when you try to use parameters with the call, even though it is documented as:

>>>>objMessage.Send( [saveCopy] [, showDialog] [, parentWindow] )

>>>>And I'm not exactly sure how the "saveCopy" parameter works anyway.
>>>
>>>The saveCopy is logical parameter that should accept .T./.F. or 1/0. The default value is True.
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>>I get an error, when using either:

>>.send(.T.)
>>  ...or...
>>.send(1)

>>saying that a collection is not allowed.
>
>Looks like you're using CDO 2000 where Send() method doesn't have any parameters. See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms526482.aspx. It's up to SMTP server to store or not copies of the messages.


Right you are about send(). Thanks. But I don't understand why when I use outlook express (or Outlook Web for that matter) to send a manually entered email, our institution's email server puts a copy of the email into my sent-mail folder. But when I do it programmatically with CDO, it doesn't.