>I havent used the west wind product yet, I know I should as it would be prudent business practice(always should know the competition) but as long as it supports authentication your app will work fine.

Brian...I just noticed that your company also develops/sells email solutions for vfp and other languages. Can you tell me if the mail server configuration requirements to send SMTP email would be the same as for West Wind? I assume so...but just curious. Does your product require either relaying or authentication for smtp. Right now...my testing using the West Wind authentication is failing...some sort of garbled Base64 data error. Also...do you provide a way that the user could manage the email account from within our application, rather than through their email client? Specifically, we need to know if any messages were undelivered, bounced, etc. I don't know if West Wind does this.

Thanks...

Douglas