thanks cetin. i've been running it through my debugger to understand what is happening and i have two questions:

1. What is storeid? it appears to be the entryid for an outlook folder, but i'm not sure. if so, i'm assuming that it would be different for each computer even if each computer is running the same version of outlook and trying to access the same folder name on its own outlook.

2. i've seen this so many times and used it many times but don't understand it. "m.ix". i know it has to do with arrays, and it appears that "m" is for the array name and "ix" is for each individual "cell" of the array. however, i cannot find "m" anywhere in msdn. you've got it sprinkled throughout your code samples so i was wondering "what is "m""?

thanks a lot!

Paul