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How to send an e-mail in VB6 with HTML

Hey everyone!
I am looking to make my program e-mail a daily report to a few pre-set e-mail accounts.
I'd like to be able to use html in the e-mail so the end result looks like what EE sends out when someone posts a comment to your question.
I would like it to match the GUI of my program.
I would like it to be able to support "Server requires auth to send mail" feature because My servers require that.

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edwardiii

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Shiju S

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JesNoFear

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The content you insert into 'strFontControlBody' is html coding corrent?
are there returns needed between lines? '& chr(13) & chr(10) &'

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PaulHews

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JesNoFear

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I keep getting a (The "SendUsing" configuration value is invalid.) messange when i try to use Shiju's solution....

JesNoFear

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never mind, it was my error

Shiju S

can u please place the code u tried ?

Shiju S

try using this value

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 1

JesNoFear

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i hadn't added the schemas.ms...... into it because i though it was only comments....

Shiju S

well, u got it working ;-)

edwardiii

Hello, again.

Yes, the strFontControlBody contains HTML. It was built from the contents of a Textbox; I had to replace all occurrences
of "vbNewLine" with "<br>" because in my Outlook emails, Outlook ignored the vbNewline code:

strTxtAllConvert = Replace(txtAll.Text, vbNewLine, "<br>")
strFontControlBody = "<font face = MS Sans Serif size=3>" & strTxtAllConvert & "</font>"

Thank you for the points;)