Wayne,

A few points to consider:

Fax/3000 with the deliver.e option is fine for fairly simplistic e-mailing.  IIRC, the e-mail attachment is converted to a TIFF file before being sent.  You cannot create multi-part mime headers.

Sendmail/iX is something that is free, but requires you to have a pretty good technical understanding of your system.  If you have the time, money and inclination to develop an in-house solution, this is probably a good choice for your starting point.

Hillary Software has an interesting product called byRequest.  You can create macros to do all kinds of things with your spool files (select, format, convert to (word|excel|html|etc)) before sending the results out.  While I really haven't had the time to do a thorough review of the product, what I have seen has convinced us to use this solution.

I'm sure you'll get some additional thoughts from others here.



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>>> "Wayne R. Boyer" <[log in to unmask]> 12/19/00 12:57AM >>>
Instead of emailing an entire spoolfile... does anyone have some good ideas
on altering some application software to auto lookup say a customer's email
address and instead of printing an invoice, simply email it over to them?  I
discussed a proposal on this for a semi-reluctant client (aka skeptical
client) and the actual email part is not something that I have experience
with.
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