This component is based on the source code of libsmtp, made by Kevin Read <obsidian@berlios.de> in 2002. This library is available under the GNU Lesser Public License It seems that the author of this library does not maintain it anymore. I modified it and fixed many bugs to make it work correctly. If you want the origianl, you can find it at: http://libsmtp.berlios.de/ -- Benoît.