Hi Rick,

I agree that SMTP is the way to go but, not all users have access to an SMTP server. For instance many of our clients only have AOL for internet activities, and as far as I know AOL does not supply SMTP. It isw possible however with a live net connection and one of the published web services. However these services are not commercial and as a result you cannot depend on them. AOL is a tough nut to crack.

Glenn
>I assume this is a Fox app?
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>If you integrate SMTP email you need to ask the user for their email server so that they can send. Other than that it's just send the mail.
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>There are tools like wwIPStuff that acomplish this (http://www.west-wind.com/wwipstuff.asp). Also, Mabry has an ActiveX control for SMTP and I'm sure tehre are others out there that I don't know about <g>...
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>With wwIPStuff it's a few lines of code like so:
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>oIP = CREATE("wwIPStuff")
>oIP.cMailserver = "somemailserver.net"
>oIP.cRecipient = "rstrahl@west-wind.com"
>oIP.cSenderEmail = "rstrahl@West-wind.com"
>* oIP.cSenderName = "Rick Strahl"
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>oIP.cSubject = "Title"
>oIP.cBody = "Message body"
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>* oIP.cContentType = "text/html" && Send HTML email
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>lnResult = oIP.Send()   (or oIP.SendMailAsync() )
>IF lnResult # 0
>   ? oIP.cErrorMsg
>   RETURN
>ENDIF
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>Thanks Rick.
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>>I need that email handling for a shareware application that would email small pictures. I want to distribute on the net to thousands of people(hopefully) and I thought the best would be to use what they have on their computer, this way thay can have a history of what they did. It's something I do in my spare time.
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>>I didn't touch the email client aspect, I don't really know how it works but and I suppose if I would need my own smtp and everybody's emails would go thgough that right ?
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>>Any further advice is welcome.