>>Automating Outlook should not be too hard; there's enough material around from other people.
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>At the downloads section you mean?

I generally check MSDN first. The downloads section is also worth checking, of course.

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>>A VFP only solution would involve a "mail" table on the server and probably a "timer" running on the client that would query the table at regular intervals.
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>This sounds interesting. Is this a better one that outlook as an option. This way users don;t have to spend more money on addtional software for mine to work. Do I make sense here Gerry?

The "best" solution is usually the one that takes the least effort (assuming the result is the same).

The Outlook solution may be the easiest if everyone is already using Outlook and they are all "hooked" up together (which, I believe, requires Exhange Server, unless they are all connected via the Internet or an Intranet).

The VFP solution is appealing if you don't want to be dependent on "extras", particularly if you are looking for a solution that would distributed to different types of sites.

I believe it would also be easier to customize a VFP solution ... and it would also be more fun to build.

Also, Exchange Server, the Internet, etc. have been know to go "down" (for whatever reason); the VFP solution is only dependent on the availabilty of the network itself, so the VFP solution, on average, would have more "uptime" ...

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>Thanks Gerry.