1: You will have problems buying VB 6. What you can do is to buy VB.NET in
one of the bigger versions. Which one im not shure. You can then downgrade
to VB 6.

2: Use the MAPI control included in VB for sending mail. You can find
programming examples on MSDN

Peter
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