>Greg,
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>There's a 3rd party control that lets you edit HTML called textcontrol (textcontrol.com). I've heard good things about this control but its expensive and bulkly and yet another thing to distribute to your users.
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>Other (untested, seat of the pants) ideas:
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>1. Use RichEdit (RTF) control and then write a RTF to HTM converter.
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>2. Use the DHTML editor capabilities built into Internet Explorer. I would search for more info on this control and its limitations on Rick Strahl's www.west-wind.com site (whitepapers, blog entries, and messageboard areas). Rick sells an HTML help authoring utility and has done an exhaustive look at HTML editing components.
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>3. Automate Word as your HTML editor. I believe Rick Strahl mentions this technique in his blogs.
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>Hope this helps,
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>Malcolm

Wow! Thanks a bunch! Those are some very helpful suggestions.

I did find out one other tidbit of information. Apparantly if you use the 'to' property of the mail item rather than the 'addreceipents' method the Outlook warning is not triggered.

It's looking like in the short term to get this thing more solid; I will be moving my email automation code out of the main application and into it's own EXE that I will call with a shell execute. That should at least let the host application live on even if the email automation piece and outlook go into a persistent vegitative state. Hopefully by avoiding the addrecipents and using the 'to' property I can avoid the Outlook warning headaches as well.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions. They have opened up many more options to solve this problem right when I have the time.

Greg