thanks sergey, they decided to use another server which get me out of a hole for a little while. i want to use cdo but their demo laptops are not up to spec yet but when they are i will move.
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>Hi Mark,
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>I don't know about cdonts, but we are using CDO for Windows 2000 and Exchange SMTP server to send emails.
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>>i have a web app that uses cdonts to email messages depending on what is happening in the app. this was done so that it would work on the server, w2k, and also on other computers, mainly laptops, that the customer brings to demo's with them to show the functionality without needing web access or effecting the live system. now they are moving from their leased server to their own new internal server and it has exchange on it an exchange takes over smtp as is its want and has messed up my emailing. its too late for them to move back to mdaemon so does anyone have any ideas as to what i might do?