Brian...
Thanks for the info on your company's product. I'll check out the web site this morning. Is there a trial/demo version I can download to test it out?

thanks...douglas

>Our product is exhaustively tested with a lot of different SMTP servers for authentication and comes with free technical support. You can easily setup the server properties or have the user do it with just a few lines of code. We have samples in VFP for sending mail and if you need a form for setting up the email information just let me know and I will make you one myself.
>The control supports MD5 and LOGIN authentication mechanisms.
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>You get status from the mail server about the addresses immediately except for mail delivery errors since those are reported after the connection when the server itself attempts delivery. To handle that we have a POP3 control that lets you monitor a mailbox for messages. With your own logic you can scan the mailbox and look for mailbox bounces and undeliverable notifications. If you are using a dedicated account for the emails it is even easier to scan since the only emails in the box will be undeliverables. Also, use a REPLY-TO header field for replies to make sure users send replies to a REAL User's email.
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Thanks...
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>>Douglas