Hi Evan.

If your clients are running NT with Option Pack for or Win2000 or higher, you can use Collaborative Data Objects (CDO). Here is some code that use to send our the monthly email reminder to our user group.

I like CDO too. Unfortunately, without Outlook Express installed or IIS insalled and configured, you still have to manually configure the configuration object in order to send the e-mail and you forgot to mention that < s >. My CDO wrapper class has code like this:

WITH This
  *** create configuration and message objects
  .oConfig = CREATEOBJECT( 'CDO.Configuration' )
  IF TYPE( 'This.oConfig' ) = 'O'
    *** Check to see if we have configuration infomation
    IF NOT EMPTY( NVL( .oConfig.Fields( "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver").value, "" ) )      
      llRetVal = .T.
    ELSE
      *** Manually set Configuration properties
      *** using the CdoConfig table
      llRetVal = This.GetSmtpInfo()
    ENDIF
  ENDIF
ENDWITH

The GetSmtpInfo() method reads the required settings from a table.