There are some tools out there that can easily handle this for you. Check out wwIPstuff at www.west-wind.com, and the Mail/X Control at www.mabry.com. Both of these deal directly with an SMTP server, taking the email client out of the picture.

A free solution: blat.dll from http://www.geocities.com/toby_korn/blat/

>Hi All - thanks for your responses
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>I have now got it all working - by distributing the MSMAPI32.OCX and MSMAP32.DLL, and registering it.
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>I may look into the winsock idea as sugessted by Anatoliy later (as I may need to do some emailing without a client).
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>Do you have any suggestions where to start looking re how to use winsock to do this ?
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>Cheers
>Russ