Hi all,

I'm in the midst of writing an application which is basically a questionnaire. It emails the answers at the end to a couple of set email addresses in the form of an attachment. Now, the problem is this. I need to support a windows platform (NT, 95, 98, 2000) but also ones which haven't had the exchange client installed (which comes with Outlook 2000 I believe). It's proving a nightmare.

The reason this is a reply is that I've read several of these questions and answers and they all suggest either MailTo or the Mapi controls. I've found that the MAPI controls won't work unless you have profiles installed on your machine, i.e. Exchange Client, and 98 (for instance) doesn't use profiles unless this is installed, it uses accounts. The MAPI controls don't seem to work with this setup.

So they solve the problem some of the time, but not all. MailTo would be ok if you could send attachments with it. I've not figured this out yet either! The MAPI controls would be ok if they weren't different for each operating system. I've got Installshield Express and the merge objects don't cope with this! Dag nam it! Again this also seems to have problems sometimes if you don't use profiles.

Anyone got any ideas? I can't connect to an SMTP server through Winsock because this doesn't always work and you can't tell if it's worked!

Oh I neglected to mention that this has to be automatic with no user interaction with a mail client! This might all be a tall order!! Any ideas and I'd be well chuffed.

If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Desperation is setting in!

Thanks,
WaveyDavey