>>Roxanne,
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>>Greetings, I have been all over the web researching email tools I can use in a VFP5 app which will distribute dbfs among various sites via MCI mail. Crescent Internet Toolpack was one of the top contenders. Today I came upon the wonderful Universal Thread and the discussion centering on your search. Have you tried the Crescent Tools? Have you come to any conclusions? (Have you had any time to do so...?)
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>>I am also considering Mabry tools, IDS and EasyMail. An old version of the Mabry control was actually included on the CD included on the Prima book on VFP application development (I forgot the name now...) Have you heard any rumors of these from VFP users since August?
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>>Thanks for any help you can give me.
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>Dave,
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>I hope that Rox will excuse my butting in, but I have used the Crescent Internet Toolpak, but only the FTP control. However, my experience there might be of some use.
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>Initially, I had some difficulty in getting it to work properly with our mainframe. When I emailed them in attempt to find out what the promblem was, I got the line "we don't support VFP, only VB". After translating the problem in VB (forgive me folks), and verifying that it didn't seem to work under VB either, I finally got some assistance. The product worked, not quite as I had hoped it would, but that was a problem that had to do with our mainframe.
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>To sum up, the controls should work, but be prepared to have someone ready to covert any problems to VB before you seek support. So forewarned is forearmed (I've only got two myself ;-)).
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>hth,
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>George

George and Roxanne

Thanks for the warnings and advice! It does indeed seem that VB is the lingua franca of the third party world. As it turns out my requirements have been updated and I will need to implement satellite communication protocols instead of Internet mail protocols so the problem has been back burnered for the moment. Thanks again.

Dave