With the ActiveEmail OLE/COM component, you can add and control e-mail functionality within your project in short time. The component does not need MAPI. Sending messages features: custom header fields for messages. create message body (plain or HTML). Create message body using character sets like US-ASCII, ISO-8859-2. Add attachments using Base64 or Quoted-printable. Attachments can be embedded in message body. Add MIME entities. You can set the message sender, add multiple message authors, add multiple Reply-To (singles and groups), add multiple primary, CC, and BCC recipients singles and groups. Authentication using the AUTH LOGIN mechanism.
To improve performance, outgoing mails can be queued instead of send them directly, and processed in the background the ActiveEmail Queue service (with no extra costs).
The product also features NNTP news postings to news servers.
Product can be used with ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, Access, Visual Basic, Visual C++, C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net on various operting systems, including Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.
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FeaturesActiveEmail features the following:

Multiple recipients (To, CC, BCC);
Multiple Attachments (ASCII and binary);
Rich Text message body formatting(HTML);
Embedded objects in message body, like sounds, images, etc.;
Multiple character sets (to support foreign languages), including iso-8859-1 for Latin-1/West European, iso-2022-jp for Japanese and big5 for Chinese;
SMTP authentication;
Read receipt requests;
Mail queue to improve performance of scripts;
Supports RFC 822 SMTP message protocol;
Supports RFC 822, RFC 1521 and RFC 1522 MIME protocol;
News postings;
Detailed error descriptions;
Windows Event Logging;
Many more...