>Evan,
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>It works fine in Outlook 2000, but I think there is a security patch that causes it to require intervention.
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>>>>I need to send an email from an application without user intervention
>>>An OutLook way
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>>This requires user intervention with Outlook XP and (I think) Outlook 2000.

If Office 2000 Service Pack 2 is installed the security patch is included. This patch is recommended BTW. It may be best to use blat or one of the other SMTP tools to send to an SMTP server of your choice.