>I have now established that the client will install Outlook. Would it be fair to say that using outlook office automation is superior to all the other methods?
Easier? sure. Superior? Well that depends, we use both CDO and Outlook, when we need a record that the e-mail was sent successfully and be able to proof it (for example our purchasing system) then we use Outlook, but when we need to send e-mails 24/7 non-stop, then Outlook sucks, as after a few days it always died on us; so in that case we use CDO, and the same program (it actually has a checkbox to allow us to select the delivering method) it can run for months un-attended if using CDO.
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