have you tried looking at this
its a facility which allows you to send  a message  to an authour when rejecting a
document
this wraps the code  round the reject button but i am sure you could modify it to
your own purposes
http://www.spsfaq.com/downloads.asp?postid=579
Nicola Franzina <nfranzina@...> wrote: Hi everybody,
I have to create  a simple  application for sharepoint  in which I need the
system to send a message to a specified address  (as SharePoint does when
sending notifications).
I need the code to make SharePoint sending  just a simple text  e-mail.

Can anybody help me, please?