Gary,

I just use the MAPI controls that ship with VFP to establish the full blown email client. It works great with OE, I'm not sure about the other email clients.

>thanks david but what they want is for the email manager to launch so they can check their email.
>it seems that going out to the desktop to double click the icon is not sufficient, they need a button to click in my app.
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>your mailto thing worked great, but i'm afraid it's not what the higher ups want.