I can create a test script with the SEND MAIL script step, using SMTP, and all is fine.

But when I put the same script step in my larger script, it crashes when it reaches that step (spinning beach ball).

I have tried:

1) removing all calculations from the send mail script step - everything is hard-coded for testing. Technically, that should make the script step totally independent and not care what else is going on... right? (that didn't work)

2) pause script before and after this script step (still crashes when I continue the script)

3) Halting my script immediately before it would have attempted the SMTP send, then manually going back to the original layout (a place where I know my mini test script would have worked a moment before... get this... now it doesn't work!

4) Leopard 10.5 and Snow Leopard 10.6

Clearly, the Send email script step does not like something I have done in this script, even though all of its parameters are hard-coded (there should be NO reason why it is affected by any previous actions).

What on earth could be going on here?:

I am gradually narrowing it down and I expect I will figure out what is causing this eventually, but this is clearly a bug.

Edit: Yes - I am on 10.0v3, and yes, I am watching this every 20 minutes to make me feel better.

Eliminate the sub script by recreating the steps inside the main script - DO NOT COPY/PASTE from the sub script.

I'm suspecting a corrupted script.

I created a single brand new script from scratch, line by line - no copy/paste. And it still crashed. I guess I still have some work to do.

The only thing I can think of (and the next thing to test) is that maybe the existence of variables containing "SMTP" in the variable name could interfere in some [buggy] way? (even though I am not currently using the variables in the send mail settings).

OK so I kept trimming down my new script until it worked. At some point I made the tiniest change, and it started working, then I reverted that change and it still worked! so much for isolating the problem.

Then I tried my original complete script... it worked too!

So I quit FileMaker, reopened, and it crashes when I run either script.

This makes no sense!!!!