>We have a vfp7 app and I need to add the ability for users to send email with attachments (vfp reports in html or pdf). I have been looking at the various 3rd party tools (west wind, seekford, etc) as well as CDO and WinSock. Based on our environment (and that of our customer base) we are leaning towards sending the email using smtp. However, we also need to be able to manage the email (for undelivered/bounced messages), which I believe will need to be done via Pop3.
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>For any approach that uses smtp, the customer will need to configure their mail server to allow for relaying. Based on what I have read, this seems to be the approach that most vfp apps are taking. I am curious, however, if any of you have run into problems with this method - either with network admins refusing to allow relaying or other issues?
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>Further, if not relaying via IP restriction, then SMTP authentication seems to be the way to go. However, some of the tools don't support this or do so in a limited fashion (like west wind tools, which only supports basic Auth Login which is non-encrypted). Are there tools which support the full range of possible authentication configurations?
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>Our app sits on a server that is accessed by multiple users. The email that will be sent will NOT be from the individual users, but rather from a new user account created for our app. So, we will be adding a configuration form for the user to input their server, user account, password, etc.
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>Anyway, I am just curious as to what others have done do get their vfp apps to send email.
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>Thanks for reading....

Just a note:
Since you mentioned third party controls I feel I can comment on this.
SMTP Wizard SSL v2 has support for both AUTH LOGIN and AUTH CRAM-MD5. The control uses the most secure method the server supports for login. The control has no dependencies and relies solely on the OS's Winsock 2 stack for communications so it speaks directly to the server.

All bounced messages will end up in your POP account and POP3 Wizard SSL will allow you simply retreive them. We have clients you utilize this exact implementation in FoxPro. One of them actually wrote their own messaging system like Outlook in a way which writes the received responses to database tables and has an outgoing table which a server sits and monitors to send email.