>Does anyone other than WestWind make a control or utility that allows the sending of e-mail without the need for using Outlook or Outlook Express as a client? MAPI is fine, but Outlook sometimes brings one of our servers to a dead crawl. Thanks!

If you do not want MAPI you can use CDO (several examples here in the libraries) or SMTP.
WestWind does offer SMTP functionality in their wwIPStuff library.

More code samples also at the Fox wiki (http://fox.wikis.com)