>Exchange already has a list of every employee in our company; it would be nice to utilize this resource instead of building my own.
>Is there a third-party app, built in function, or code already out there somewhere that does this? Hopefully, I will not have to write is all from scratch!

Also, look at MSMAPI activex...it's fairly easy to send messages from vfp through Exchange - you'll want to use a global mail group, probably. Look in vfp5 samples/solution for example...