Hi Naomi,

have you tried the Token based interface? Here's a sample on how to create a message and show it to the user (from http://www.foxpert.com/KnowlBits_200609_7.htm):

LOCAL loGroupwise, lcResult
lcResult = ""
loGroupwise = CREATEOBJECT("GroupWiseCommander")
loGroupwise.Execute("NewMail()",@lcResult)
loGroupwise.Execute( ;
  [TextSetTo("]+m.lcText+[")], ;
  @lcResult ;
)

For the list of tokens see http://developer.novell.com/documentation/gwtoken/index.html?page=/documentation/gwtoken/gwtokens/data/bktitle.html#bktitle