I want to be able to send an e-mail notification from my application when a patient is rescheduled. I do not want the e-mail to show the user's name in the "From" or "Reply to" areas, but rather something generic like "Patient Rescheduled." I can set up the "Patient Rescheduled" mail account in either Notes or a non-notes SMTP account.

I have been able to send e-mail using Lotus Notes via OLE automation, and also using Nigel's MAPI class through Outlook Express. (OE worked well, Notes 4.6 had to be opened first.)

The problem is that the machines involved are "clinical workstations" and do not have OE installed. The users have a "roaming profile" for their Notes accounts. Again, I don't want the mail to appear to come from the user, and I don't want the notification account added to the user's profile, and for her to have to open it. Installing OE with the default profile is a remote possibility, but these NT machines are not easily modified, and we don't "own" them.

I don't want to purchase software.

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Things I can think of:
1. Writing the info to a file and setting up one computer with a timer and the "Patient Notification" mail account, and have it send mail every hour or day.

2. Somehow putting the mail header together from within my program, complete with the mail server name and sending the mail more directly. Again, if this involves WSH or whatever to be installed on each of these machines, that would be a problem.

3. A COM server to send the mail. (Never done a COM server before!) I think this would mean that I would only need to install the e-mail account as default on the machine where the COM server lived? (We "own" the server.)

All ideas are welcome.

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