Unatended email sending

[TimK01]

I have written an application that sends short reminder emails to staff. (they are short and only contain text)

I want it to run every night, so have set it up as a scheduled task on the NT4 server.

It runs fine as long as the server is signed on as the Administrator. But I want to run it unattended at night with the server signed off, when i do that it wont run.

I have tried both MAPI & CDO to send the emails and both work with the server signed on.

Does anyone have a solution that would work with the server signed off.

I have used VB6, NT4 (Small Business Server), Exchange Server.

 

[Yardyy]

have you tried to add the program as a service, that way you dont need to be looged on, run the program under the context of the administrator that should work fine.. Yardyy