Hi Jerry,

The SMTP service that comes with Win2K can be configured to require a username and password before it will accept outgoing e-mail. I would imagine other servers can be configured for that as well.

There was an article a while back in Windows 2000 magazine about how to use the built in SMTP server to send your outgoing email instead of sending it to your ISP's SMTP server.

>What is required for SMTP email to work? The following example works for me, if I dial into my ISP and use my smtp mail server info, etc...
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>However, in a distributed application, what will it take for an end-user to use this feature? I know if they have their own internet account with an smtp server, this will work. But what if they have MSN or AOL? How can this work for an end-user?
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>Also, can anyone that is currently connected to the internet use any valid smtp mail server with the following example? I understand that smtp does not use a username and password, then can anybody use any valid smtp mail server to send email?
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>SET CLASSLIB TO wwipstuff
>oIP = CREATE("wwIPStuff")
>oIP.cMailserver = "smtp.myserver.net"
>oIP.cRecipient = "someemail@email.com"
>oIP.cSenderEmail = "Some sender"
>oIP.cSubject = "Subject"
>oIP.cmessage = "Message body"
>lnResult = oIP.Sendmail()
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>Thanks,
>
>Jerryt