>When sending messages with Winsock you usually pass SMTP server name or IP to the procedure. Was it your question?
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>In case you want to retrieve this from Outlook Express settings -- this is Windows Registry:
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>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager\Accounts\...

Thank you, Anatolyi. BTW I had looked in your useful News2News but didn;t find it there. Thanks.

In case it may help others, this is what I found:

1) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager\Default Mail Account contains the internal name of the default mail account.

2) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager\Accounts\xxxxx\SMTP Server contains the SMTP Server name, where xxxxx is the internal name found in step 1

Alex