Sorry I didn't make it clear that I was trying to send from inside SAS University Edition under VMWare.  The code below runs but the email never show up.  How do I connect to an email server outside of SAS? thanks, Howard data mails ;   length mail_id $50. ;   mail_id = "howard@mayers.org" ;   output ;   mail_id = "hr@dba.ws" ;   output ;   mail_id = "howard@get90team.com" ;   output ;   stop ;  run ; proc sort ; by mail_id ; run ; proc print ; run ;  %macro send_email ; filename hm_mail email lrecl=32000 type='text/html' ; data _null_ ; set mails END=EOF ; by mail_id ; file hm_mail ; retain numofusers 0 ; if first.mail_id then do ;   numofusers=numofusers+1 ;   If mod(numofusers,300) = 0 then Timer=Sleep(120,1) ;   put '!EM_TO!' mail_id ;   put '!EM_SUBJECT!' 'Test Plans have been created.' ;   put 'The following test plans have been created with you as a tester.' ;   put '<br>' ;   end ; id_link = '<a href="' ||left(strip(id)) || '">' || left(strip(id)) || '</a>' ; put '<br>' ; put id_link ; put '<br>' ; if last.mail_id then do ;   put '<br>' ;   put 'This is a system-generated message. Do not reply to this e-mail.' ;   put '!EM_SEND!' ;   put '!EM_NEWMSG!' ; end ; if EOF then put '!EM_ABORT!' ; run ; %mend send_email ; %send_email ; ... View more