Check out the MSKB article below on Active Messaging. It contains a very straightforward example that can easily be modified to do what you need.

HOWTO: Implement a MessageFilter in VFP Using Active Messaging

Also, check out the link below and download the CDO Library which contains a great help file on the topic:

Where to Acquire the Collaboration Data Objects Library



>I remember recently reading a magazine article where the developer was writing an app to give a CEO the sort of graphical "You have new mail" thing that Tom Cruise got in Mission Improbable or Sandra Bullock in Speed. Does anyone know where I can find that article? Or, even better, what would be the smoothest way to just jump into MAPI, check for new mail, then jump out? I'll name the EXE after the first guy who shows me how/points me to the article.
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