Among the many ways to send email from VFP is the use of ActiveX controls. This entry explores the EsSmtp control.

One of the valuable pieces of information I ran into during my study of GDI+ was a typelib written by Dana Seaman. I provide the VFP constants from it here.

A quick entry about my upcoming GDI+ series of articles in FoxTalk, and scratching my itch.

BLAT is many developer's first pick when it comes to 3rd party components for emailing. It's freely available... so here's an entry on where to get it and the code to run it.

There are many 3rd party components available that can help when it comes to email and VFP. This entry works with JMail.

Ran into a weblog survey being conducted at MIT.

If your users use Outlook Express and you want to negate some of the size restriction that comes with ShellExecute, you can use WinExec to send emails from your VFP application.

As long as you don't need to send attachments and your emails are fairly brief, then ShellExecute can be used.

Here I'll show an example of sending email from VFP using CDO NTS. It is fairly similar in many regards to the previous entries, but note that both the mailformat and bodyformat must be changed to facilitate HTML in the body of the email.

This example will demonstrate sending email from VFP using CDOSYS which has some advantages over the previous two examples in certain situations.