E-mail sending with VB

Hi everyone,

I'm scratching my head over this.. Don't know how to get this done.. Really need your help on this..

How do I send e-mail from within a VB application? The VB application interacts with MS Access database (local to a PC).

Can this be done in VB? If yes, how is it done? Using ActiveX?

Any help at all is greatly appreciated..! Thankies!!

Most versions of windows have some flavor of CDO installed, you can use the CDO object to send mail. I use a 3rd party email component that works in VB6, there are a lot of email components available.

Thanks.

Do you know what are the common email components available that can be supported in VB6?

In the meantime, I'll try to find out more on this from my VB book.

I suspect CDO is most common. This search returns a lot of alternatives.

http://www.google.com/search?q=vb6+...:en-US:official

Thanks once again for the help given, Doug..

I'm also doing some searching over the net to check out what I should use.. I'm very new to this area of programming, so I'm not sure if CDO sends Lotus Notes email? This is because I've found out that there are some specific files which are used only for interacting with MS Outlook mails..

What about vbsendmail.dll? Have you heard anything about it?

In the meantime, I'm still researching on this matter.. Thanks again!

I don't know vbsendmail.dll

Mail can be complicated, if all you need is internet smtp mail that makes it a bit easier, but servers like Exchange and probably Notes support a number of other mail formats.

For smtp (internet) mail I've used JMail with VB6, and I once used ASPMail with VB6, currently I use mail objects (not free) from emailarchitect.com in vb6.