There should be an easier way to show the email got sent. If you're using Exchange, it can verify if an email got sent or not. Other mail servers should have similar functionality.

>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.