>For a long time I have been using Chilkat to send body of text messages to addresses on dbfs
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>Now I realise its not a very good product for this purpose
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>Can anyone suggest anything better
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>Colin

For the records, Colin and I have solved this problem.

We already had the message formatted as a html string in the variable lcBody. The original code set a property with the command "loEmail.body=lcbody", Since this only produced an email sent as text, the message showed badly, as plain text with all the html tags visible. Most email programs I have worked with earlier has a property to tell the program that the string is html, and not text. A Google search made it clear that Chilkat doesn't have such a property. Instead it has a function for a similar purpose.

So the solution was to comment out the line "loEmail.body=lcbody" and add the line "loEmail.SetHtmlBody(lcBody)".