Another approach you might want to look at is to use the SMTP protocol to send the mail: it doesnt require MAPI and the hassles that come with that, and what is neat, and yet dangerous is that you can send an email using any from address: for example I sent a joke email from my boss to an employee. The only thing you need is a SMTP server - this can be already on the internet somewhere else or on a Win2k server.

I'm sure there is an OCX somewhere that can do this, but I downloaded some VB code from www.freevbcode.com (go to the site and search for SMTP) - i built it as a component and used it from VFP. I dont have the component (lost to a hard drive crash), or else I would upload it

>>>Hi guys,
>>>
>>>I want to be able to send e-mails from my VFP application no matter what e-mail client is installed on the computer. Of course, I want to edit all header fields (CC, BCC, etc), the messagebody and attachments. I saw a few examples, but none with all these features.
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
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>>Alonso,
>>Try Nigel Coates's MAPI class (File#9524). This should work on all MAPI compliant mail packages. However, I don't know if it supports all the fields you want.
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>>HTH.
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>Thanks, Larry. :)
>
>Going to take a look at it.