Hi, Gary!

Any mail sending requires at least host name and EMail address. If this is just for errors tracking in your application, you can provide a simple INI file that will hold this information. Profile used by MAPI controls is just a simple wrapper around this host. Some hosts also require user account and password for connecting. Host is the machine in the network that is SMTP Email server. BTW, when sending EMail through SMTP, this could be any remote host in the Internet, however, I'm not sure about Winsock control (I used wwIPStuff libraries for VFP).

HTH.

>Hello
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>What I am trying to do is pop up the users default mail application from VB, and send a couple file attachments.
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>I was told that it is not possible to send file attachments using the mailto URL.
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>I tried using the MAPI controls that come with VB 5.0 but when I tried to send an E-Mail message, it prompted me for a profile, and then gave me the option of setting up a profile using the Microsoft Exhange Wizard. We are not using Microsoft Exchange here.
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>I then found a VB application that would send E-Mail over the internet using the Winsock control. The problem that I have with this is that the application needs to know the name of the Host as well as the E-Mail address of the client sending the E-Mail message.
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>All I want to do is send an E-Mail message to myself from within my VB application if an error is encountered.
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>What would be the best way to accomplish this.
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>Thank You
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>Gary Hagerty