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>How are ya? So if one want to have the ability to send, receive emails automatically from within VFP, would having outlook on the clinet machine be the best solution?
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Hi Ravi,

I'm doing well...how's it going with you?

While I think Outlook Automation certainly has its place, if I was distributing an application I would not want to depend on (or require) the existance of Outlook on the end-users' machines...especially for simple sending and receiving of emails.

Both wwIPstuff from www.west-wind.com ($129 shareware) and Mail/X control from www.mabry.com have what you need for sending and receiving emails from VFP, and you can distribute them with your app. wwIPstuff examples are in VFP, which is a plus for you. Also checkout Brian's website (elsewhere in this thread).

And if you want spend more money *grin*, Whil has a new book covering email on www.hentzenwerke.com. I haven't read it, but if its like their other books, its thorough).

Let's see, who else can I plug...hehe

>By the way, could you have a look at my thread about VFP8 runtime files.
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I saw that, but didn't have any suggestions...except for to try to register the files on the machine.