Hello Brainard.

There must be a little more to configuring CDO than to set up and use OURLOOK EXPRESS. I use OE all day and it is the only email client on my computer

Well, I just set an internet mail account for myself in OE (I recently had to fdisk this machine because I needed a new mother board and a new cpu) and used the code I gave you to send myself an e-mail message. It worked fine. So I do not understand why you are having so much trouble trying to get this to work.

But your code gives the same error on my machine(XP).

Which error is that? One error was my fault. I forgot to give you the #DEFINE statement in my original code. If you have the CDO configuration object set up properly, that code should work. It works fine for me under WinXP Pro and Win2kPro as well as both VFP 7 and VFP 8.