>I have been sending email programmatically through VFP apps using Outlook as the client within an MS Exchange Network. 1-2 years ago there was an Office upgrade that added a layer of security to Outlook through service patches. The effect was to force user intervention to confirm any programmatic email. Our solution was a kludge, to strip the service patches from Outlook. No problem.
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>The systems people now want to remove legacy systems, which will mean upgrading Office and the return of the security problem.
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>I've found a couple of VB solutions which purport to handle email without a client, but I am no VB programmer and don't know how one would tie them into VFP applications painlessly.
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>Is there a client-less or other-client VFP-compatible solution to this which anyone can point me to? Need to send email programmatically from VFP6 apps in an MS Exchange environment without user intervention.
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>Thanks in advance
>Howie Brown

Howie,

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