Hi, I'm using blat (http://www.blat.net/) to send emails from batch-scripts. (w2k command environment) I always used sent my emails directly to the smpt-server name, but that will not work anymore. Instead I need to request the smtp servername from dns by reading the MX-record. For this, I can type nslookup -querytype=mx [domainname] <enter> The results look similar to: scct.emea.company.com MX preference = 20, mail exchanger = cli-location-195.scct.emea.company.com scct.emea.company.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = cli-location-194.scct.emea.company.com scct.emea.company.com nameserver = kate.company.com I need to store into a variable the results: a) cli-location-195.scct.emea.company.com b) cli-location-194.scct.emea.company.com I have tried to use the "="sign as delimiter with following commandline: FOR /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims==" %a in ('nslookup -type=mx scct.emea.fedex.com') do set SMTPSERVER=%c But this results in error: Non-existent domain (probably the nslookup command needs DNS input from reverse-lookup but i guess this is not possible in my 'FOR' statement above). Does someone have any suggestions how to achieve this? Thanks in advance! Igor.

To be clear.... I'm interested in: a) Having a scripting solution (for commandline tools like Blat) -AND- b) Having a VB6 solution (VB-control) to allow built-in sendmail functionality within my VB application. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Kind regards, Igor.