>
>I'm not too concerned with cc:Mail - I know they've had a number of problems in the past. For example, interoperability problems with MS Office SP2! I consider the cc:Mail database "fragile" and I'm not certain fixes required to make it work properly are necessary or desirable for VFP.

The reason I brought them up is that this was sited as a fix for a lot of Clipper corruption/locking problem issues. I have to admit, after switching these settings and moving to only TCP/IP a lot of the "weird" problems we have had just disappeared. YMMV.

-Paul