Simon,
can´t you use ´cdo´ to send messages. It is already present on W2K and XP machine. All you need is a smtp server on you network.
CDO does not need any further email clients.
There are loads of examples to this.

Regards,
Ron
>Hi
>
>I do not have OutLook installed on this workstation. I tried with OutLook Express and then I tried with PocoMail open but I still get the same error message.
>
>I know how to use Outlook automation but not all my clients use Outlook so I am trying to get a generic MAPI approach working.
>
>Thanks
>Simon
>
>>Hi Simon,
>>
>>Do you've Oulook (or other mail client) running at the time when you use Mapimail? If you don't you may have to supply Profile name and password as the first two parameters.
>>
>>>Hi Sergey
>>>
>>>It turns out that laError(3) just contains an empty string but during debugging I found that the SignOn method generates the error.
>>>
>>>The following is contained was obtained from AError()
>>>
>>>laError(1,1)=1429
>>>laError(1,2)="OLE IDispatch exception code 0 from MAPISession: .."
>>>laError(1,3)=""
>>>laError(1,4)="MAPISession"
>>>laError(1,5)="MAPI98.CHM"
>>>laError(1,6)=-2147435259
>>>laError(1,7)=15621
>>>