>>I agree with the CDO approach. I used Sergey's code at https://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/cdo-2000-class-sending-emails to get started. It looks like a lot of code, but really isn't, some of it illustrates the flexibility.
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>>I have one app using it on Server 2012 R2. It runs fine, nothing to install or configure, it's just there and it works.
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>>One drawback to the CDO approach is, since you're not automating Outlook, you don't automatically get a copy of sent messages in Outlook. But, you can save them in some other format elsewhere, or that may not be important to you.
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>thanks for this link Al. We have a lot of email import to do at our end that requires organizing outlook folders and processing the emails collected programmatically.
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>With that in mind, will CDO approach work for us??

For years we've been successfully using Redemption for Outlook automation.