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Send mail from Access 2000 using outlook Express 5.5

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I have an access 2000 db with email addresses.  These addresses need to receive a monthly HTML newsletter.  My email client is Outlook Express 6 or 5.5

I know you can send an HTML letter using Outlook 2000 by adding a reference to Outlook.Application and objOutlookMsg.HTMLBody = HTML_String.  Is there a similiar reference for Express?

If not how else could I build this HTML newsletter functionality using Access 2000 and Express 6.0?

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You could use MAPIMAIL to send using the default email client.  It can be downloaded from www.universalthread.com and is quite easy to use with only a few lines of code.
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Hi

Struggling to find a mapimail download there, found one but it was a Foxpro download.  It also looks l need to pay for the www.universalthread.com site?

I also found an old Experts Exchange thread saying that Mapimail does not work with HTML emails?  Is this correct from your experience?

Colin
I wouldn't know that one for sure.  All of the emails I send are plain text and it works great.
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Is there a one stop shop/website where I can get some information on how to use this mapimail to send emails from Access.  
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