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Sending email on a given date
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02/06/2009 17:07:15
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Vista
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01403273
Message ID:
01403294
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53
>Anyone know how to get Outlook to send an email on a given date from Foxpro?

There are at least a couple of approaches:

1. Have a VFP program running continuously. Within VFP, determine if it's now the time to send the message. You could use a Timer control, or a loop with a Sleep API call for this (use a long timer interval e.g. a minute or longer so your program doesn't hog CPU).

After the desired date/time is reached, and the message sent, the program can keep running, or can terminate itself.

2. Create a VFP program that only knows how to send a mail immediately. Then, use the Windows Task Scheduler to schedule when this program will be run.
Regards. Al

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