>>>It should work if "mailto:" protocol is registered on that PC.
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>>Can "mailto:" be regitered on an ISP server? (don't laugh!:-)
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>Terry,
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>The "mailto:" popups defaut email client with prefilled information. Why do you want to do that on the server?

A project I am working on will perform a couple of "server" functions and send notices to site users based on information in the database, or based on information harvested from the server's incoming ftp folder.

In one case, remote administrators will make requests for meetings to a SQL DB on the server. A bot on the server will wake up every once in a while, review for meeting requests made by remote administrators and then forward an "iCalander" notice to associated departmental email accounts. On this guy I have a good understanding of the bot and the details he needs to handle, with the exception of how the bot will send the email/iCalendar notices to deparmental personel associated with the remote administrators meeting request. So that question is:

How will the VFP bot, on the ISP, send an iCalendar to a list of emails.

The other project has a bot that harvests MDBs from an FTP folder, checks the the MDBs to make sure the data is okay, and inserts the data to a SQL table(s) and creates a succes response to be returned to an email associated with the FTP submission. For those submissions that fail to pass muster, a detailed error report needs to be emailed to an account associated with the failed FTP submission.

Question is the same as the last.

The bots are all VFP. VFP is installed on the server (ISP). So - in my ever hopeful ignorance, I thought a VFP bot, residing on an ISP, could just say "MailTo:" - and that would be it!

Sergy - any help - as always - would be appreciated. My hope is that it could be all VFP, or, worst case, and VFP using a few embedded MS server objects. Any suggestions - I would prefer not to purchase or install third party objects.

Terry