Marcia, thanks! I had used CDONTS extensively with VFP web apps, but, your CDO example should work well without IIS SMTP (I think...).
>Hi Claude.
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>>> Gerald, thanks! Is there any VFP code for that here on the UT or MS knowledge base for a simple example calling CDO from VFP. From what I've seen, it's a little more complicated than using CDONTS... <<
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>This should help to get you started if you are planning to use CDO for Windows 2000 (cdosys.dll) The parameter object has properties populated for recipient lists, message body, etc.:
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>LPARAMETERS toParms
>LOCAL lnCnt, lnLen
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>*** create configuration and message objects
>loConfig = CREATEOBJECT( 'CDO.Configuration' )
>loMsg = CREATEOBJECT( 'CDO.Message' )
>WITH loMsg
>  .Configuration = loConfig
>  .To = ALLTRIM( toParms.cTo )
>  .CC = ALLTRIM( toParms.cCC )
>  .Bcc = ALLTRIM(toParms.cBcc )
>  .Subject = ALLTRIM( toParms.cSubject )
>  *** See if we are sending a web page in the body of the message
>  IF NOT EMPTY( toParms.cURL )
>    .CreateMHTMLBody( ALLTRIM( toParms.cURL ) )
>  ENDIF
>  *** Add any message text to the beginning of the body
>  .HTMLBody = toParms.cHTMLBody + .HTMLBody
>  *** Add any attachments
>  IF NOT EMPTY( toParms.aAttachments[ 1 ] )
>    lnLen = ALEN( toParms.aAttachments, 1 )
>    FOR lnCnt = 1 TO lnLen
>      .AddAttachment( ALLTRIM( toParms.aAttachments[ lnCnt ] ) )
>    ENDFOR
>  ENDIF
>  .Send()
>ENDWITH
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