Noah Roberts wrote:

> I need to develop a program for altering dialup and email settings
> automatically. I have tried finding information in google and msdn but
> I can't seem to feed it the right food to get my answer. I will
> probably be working in C or C++, I just need to know what topic to look
> for in msdn or something that will direct me to the API and structure
> documentation for what I need.

I found the information I needed to alter the dialup settings. Now what
I need is how to set up outlook express to authenticate during smtp
transactions. If I am not mistaken there is an API somewhere that
allows you to access profile settings in IE and OE but I have no clue
what they are.

thank you,
NR

Noah Roberts wrote:
> Noah Roberts wrote:
>
>> I need to develop a program for altering dialup and email settings
>> automatically. I have tried finding information in google and msdn
>> but I can't seem to feed it the right food to get my answer. I will
>> probably be working in C or C++, I just need to know what topic to
>> look for in msdn or something that will direct me to the API and
>> structure documentation for what I need.
>
>
> I found the information I needed to alter the dialup settings. Now what
> I need is how to set up outlook express to authenticate during smtp
> transactions. If I am not mistaken there is an API somewhere that
> allows you to access profile settings in IE and OE but I have no clue
> what they are.
>
> thank you,
> NR
>

I found the answer to my problem. I am assuming that nobody helped
because nobody knew the answer so here it is:

dialup settings can be manipulated through RASENTRY and related
structures/function calls.

outlook express keeps its account settings in the registry under
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager\Accounts\some_number

In particular the SMTP auth setting appears to be "SMTP Use Sicily" (why
sicily I have no idea) and should be set to 2 for on, 0 for off.

Have a nice day,
NR