Steve:

After a read read of your response:

>...especially for simple sending and receiving of emails.
Waht if one wants to attach lab reports, scans etc as attachments to an email?

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>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).
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Which Brian are you referring to? Will the above mentioned sharewares do a complete job on emails.

>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).

I might buy it for the sake of reading and understading the process:)
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>Let's see, who else can I plug...hehe
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BTW, how does one register files manually or automate registering of files, specially in the situation that i am facing in my other thread.

Thanks Steve.