>>I am already storing the contents of my outlook messages in a foxpro table but i am wanting to store a unique reference for each email so i can open a particular email in outlook. Any feedback is most welcome
>
>There is a particular property of the item that returns it's unique ID:
> EntryID
>
>You can use it like this:
>

>	aplicacao = createobject("outlook.application")
>	espaco = aplicacao.GetNamespace("MAPI")
>	inbox = espaco.GetDefaultFolder(6)
>
>
>	mensagem = inbox.items(1)
>        UniqueReferenceToMessage = mensagem.EntryID
>

>
>Joaquim

Thanks Joaquim. Works great