I am trying to use Scheduler to send recurring e-mails. When I set up Action, I enter the SMTP, but I am using Yahoo which requires authentication and I do not see a way to enter authentication information. I do not want to use a third party solution. There should be a way to do this thru Scheduler otherwise the e-mail option is almost useless. Any suggestions?

Unless you own the SMTP server and it is in your Windows domain there is no other authentication method available to you through the Task Scheduler. External SMTP needs to have anonymous authentication setup for you to use it. However you'll probably never find one...thanks to spammers. An error occurs when a task attempts to send an e-mail If a task attempts to send an e-mail, but the e-mail doesn't get sent correctly, first make sure that the settings for the e-mail action on the task are set correctly. The e-mail action must have a valid value for the SMTP server, To, and From settings. For more information about these settings, see Actions. Make sure the SMTP server that sends the e-mail is setup correctly. E-mail is sent using NTLM authentication for Windows SMTP servers, which means that the security credentials used for running the task must also have privileges on the SMTP server to send e-mail. If the SMTP server is a non-Windows based server, then the e-mail will be sent if the server allows anonymous access. For information about setting up the SMTP server, see SMTP Server Setup, and for information about managing SMTP server settings, see SMTP Administration. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721846(WS.10).aspx r/ john John Wildes | Senior Enterprise Architect | United Airlines | Desktop Engineering