Just to be sure, in no way was my suggestion of using CDOSYS an argument against you or your good article.  It was only meant as an alternative, especially if there's a reason why mail couldn't be setup using traditional methods.  An example of such a reason is in older fail-over clusters where the people large-and-in-charge won't do a fail-over so you can setup email on the fail-over node(s) but you still need email to work.  I've had to use it so many times at so many companies so that the "DBA Morning Reports" that I build for folks will actually work for sure that it's become a bit of a de facto standard for me.  If traditional methods work for whatever system you're trying to stand up, then your good scripts will be mighty handy.  Thank you for taking the time to write and publish the article about them.