release version doesn't send mail

[vanessa]

hello,
i'm quite new to the Visual Studio .NET environment and
am using it on XP to write a console application for NT.
My program reads a couple of files, builds a message
string from them and then sends the message to me using
sockets.
As long as the program is compiled with "debug", it runs
ok. As soon as i build a "release" version i can still
see the console output but the message sending part
doesn't work.
Please, could anyone help me what could be the cause of
this problem ?
Thank you
V.

[vanessa]

it's not too common to post the answer to your own
question here i guess, but here goes, just in case
someone else runs into the same trouble:
the release version worked fine as soon as i had shut off
the windows optimisation before building. that's a
checkbox in the project configuration dialog box that has
to be unchecked.
Now i'm not too happy that my program isn't optimal by
windows standards, but if it were, it wouldn't work...
V.:-)