Hi Terry,

I'm unfamiliar with iCalendar so cannot comment on it but you can use CDO for Windows 2000 to send SMTP mail.

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>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.
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>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:
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>How will the VFP bot, on the ISP, send an iCalendar to a list of emails.
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>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.
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>Question is the same as the last.
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>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!
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>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.
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>Terry