Gaven,

Your language is immoderate and unhelpful. You managed to alienate yourself on this forum last time you started a rant, which accounts for your very low rating.

Try to be less urgent, and avoid personal attacks - it won't get you the information you need.

If a response does not contain enough information, ask for more. If it is irrelevant or unhelpful, ignore it.



As for your specific query, yes, there are quite a few com automation objects available which will allow you to create network connections.

Most (all?) are commercial, although Catalyst used to provide a cut-down version for personal use IIRC.

Some versions of the MS development tools also provide a socket com / ActiveX API.

Another alternative is to use terminal emulators which include scripting interfaces.

There is not however a standard facility available with the vanilla OS - the socket library and API is there and you can program it with low level languages like 'C' but there are no scriptable objects.

The reason no-one has taken this too far is that there is a greater problem using KiXtart to control these connections. This is that KiXtart has no native binary data types, so unless you can be certain that the data is going to be entirely printable ASCII you are stuffed.

If you want to communicate with SMTP servers use something like blat and wrap up the interface in a UDF. This is a very powerful little tool and you will not be able to replicate it's features in KiXtart.

If you are determined to go down the programmable sockets route, perform a search on all the forums. This query comes up quite regularly and there is a lot of information on the board.