Luis,

In Outlook Express there is an option for "Send message immediately" Outlook shoud have something similar. Also make sure it is set to connect to the net automatically if it doesn't find a running connection.

>Hello everybody,
> I have asked this question before, maybe now I got lucky now?
> When I send e-mail from within Visual Foxpro 5.0a, the recipient
>does not get the e-mail until I open "my" outlook. Why is that ?,
> In other words, I still need to open outlook to actually send the
>mail.
> Here a sample of one of the codes that I have tried :
>
> loMAPISession=CREATEOBJECT("MSMAPI.MAPISession.1") && Create the MAPI object.
> loMAPISession.UserName="Windows Messaging"
> loMAPISession.SignOn()
> loMAPIMessage=CREATEOBJECT("MSMAPI.MAPIMessages.1")
> WITH loMAPIMessage
> .SessionID=loMAPISession.SessionID
> .Compose()
> .MsgIndex=-1
> .MsgNoteText="Hi with ole"
> .MsgSubject="Using MAPI for e-mail"
> .RecipDisplayName=lcMyEmailAddress
> .Send(0)
> ENDWITH
> loMAPISession.SignOff()
>
> What am I missing ?
> =THIS.Thanks("in advance")