[AccessD] Personal question about OCX

You can download an ocx (NTSVC.ocx) from MS that you can use in VB5/6 to
enable the exe to run as a service.  In .Net you
can create a service type app straight off.  You could maybe automate
the email exe from there.  I'm not too optimistic though
as I recall trying this some years ago and ran into permission problems.
Basically MS doesn't like services sending email :-)
I ended up using scheduler as it suited my needs at the time.

cheers

Michael M

Drew,

We bought software that has some automation programs that receive email
and send email among other things.  Each one is a separate "module" or
"add in" for this software package.  They were intended to run on a pc
and started by an individual as they were needed.  Our need exceeded
this use, we need this to run 24 / 7, so we started them on the server,
and simply locked the computer letting the "modules" run.  I did look in
to the OCX to see if I could convert these little exe's into services
that would run on the server without logging into the server, however I
believe you need to insert code into the applications on load events or
something if I remember correctly.  

Do you know of any other way to let an application that should be a
service, run as a service.  Hang up is that I cannot gain access to the
source code without paying, or having them do it and charge us out the
wazzoo??  All I have is an EXE that I kick off.  

Just looking for some insight...

thanks,
Rich