Tim,
A few years ago I had a similar project. I used the "Chilkat  mailman" 
mail client 
www.chilkatsoft.com which cost a few tens of pounds and the 
Bullzip pdf printer driver 
www.bullzip.com to create attachable 
invoices. Its been running for several years without a problem.
Roger
Tim wrote:
> The company I work for want to start sending marketing e-mails to it customer 
> database and e-mailing statements and remittances from the accounts department. 
> Now obviously we don't want several 1000 e-mail hitting the server at once, so 
> does anybody have any comments about any available windows based packages 
> please. We don not run an Exchange e-mail server, but a small basic e-mail 
> server system.
>
> (If I don't reply it is not that I am ungrateful, it is because I am going a way 
> for the weekend)
>
> Tim
>
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