Your email really got me thinking about how I had used blat (the exe) so I finally started the process of converting to blat.dll this would bypass the need to configure mapi, or having a client installed with outlook. also emails could be configured to be sent with data from VFP. no matter what server they were connected to.
I just posted a work in progress with three working class files, blat email, and install. Only one of them is necessary. the email, and install are just samples on how to work with blat.

I would love to know anyone else had thoughts about this approach.

Bob Lee

http://www.1amsoftware.com/blatstuff/Bobx%20VFP%20Blat%20Page.htm


>>What I want to do is to get the username, e-mail address, company name, etc
>>from a table in VFP, combine them together to become an e-mail and then send
>>to each user. I have tried to use "run" to execute an external e-mail
>>program calls "Blat.exe" to send e-mail on the DOS-command line. So far it
>>works but I need to combine the command line into a string, then copy this
>>string into a batch file (since "run" cannot allow me to use a variable
>>after it) then use the "run" to run the batch file. And if I want to send
>>100 mails, the DOS-prompt window will appear 100 times on the screen, it is
>>annoyable. So do we have any solution? OLE automation? How to send an e-mail
>>inside VFP?
>>Thanks
>
>>bb