..some places to get started. I attended a webinar demo by 7. Stone Bond Technologies, which was the reason that I am asking what Microsoft has to offer.

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I was wondering if you would be willing to share the relevant portions of your code to do this RAISERROR logging?

Thanks in advance

I had to SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF to get it to run....but it did not work....no results printed

ya know, after reading the post prior to mine, it could be that the time out setting for SMTP is too low to allow enough time to send the file...even...

I think this has nothing to do with the SMTP server delays. I have done send mail with a small .xls zipped to just less than 2 meg and...

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In DTS (2000), when viewing the properties of an  "Execute SQL" task, although the dialogue box was fairly small and NOT resizable, one could view several lines of...

Another option could be to use Outlook as your mail client (receiving the email).  Outlook is completely programmable. You could use Outlook to send a file/notice to a specified directory...