Thanks Hugo.

Peter

>Hi Peter,
>
>>Thanks I'll check that out. What does your code do? Is it something you could share?
>
>Good question. Now that you asked I looked at a different program of mine, and I use a different technique to get the Outlook Item from an ID. What the code does is a long story, not sure if it is of any interest, but there it goes. What my code does is using one Outlook Account to give an EMail-like client to some of our users. These are users that have a generic login into our system for they share the computer and the programs they use; for example, the stores persons are concurrently using the same computer(s) and program(s) to check in/out items from the store, so they share a special login name (lets say STORES) and whenever they do a transaction they just enter a secret PIN to individualize them and this works quite well (and the same for others, like for example mechanics working on a train where they need to log the work they are doing)
>
>The problem with that approach is that it makes difficult to give them an e-mail account (not impossible, but then there are another non-technical issues, and I do not understand them well enough to explain anyways <g>) while sharing the same login name, so what my program does is have a computer running an E-Mail "Listener", when it receives an e-mail it looks at the subject (originally I wanted to use the catch all account, but the NA did not allow me to do so for it is used by the antivirus/antispam software), and if in the subject there is an employee name or list of names enclosed in <<>> then it checks if that user has an outlook account, and if it has then it forwards the e-mail directly, if it has not, then it creates an internal mail message in a database (including attachments if there are any) and notifies the user (which must be running a VFP client). This does the reverse if the user wants to reply/forward or create a new mail, and is still a proof of concept, we are not
>using it other than in tests, but it seems to work ok.
>
>Anyways, when you asked the first question I searched the string 'NameSpace' that you were using and found some code similar to yours but for something else that had the Logon() as I said, but now, looking at the code of my EMailServer DLL, I found that to get what you want I use a simpler code.
>
>

>	protected function getOutlookItem(tcEntryID as String) as Object
>		local lcEntryID, loItem, loOutlook
>		
>		lcEntryID			= Iif(Vartype(tcEntryID) = 'C', Alltrim(tcEntryID), '')
>		if Empty(lcEntryID)
>			this.LastError		= 'Invalid or missing EntryID, parameter is not optional'
>			return null
>		endif
>		
>		try
>			loOutlook		= Createobject('Outlook.Application')
>			loItem			= loOutlook.Session.GetItemFromID(tcEntryID)
>		catch to loException
>			this.LastError		= loException.Message
>			loItem			= null
>		endtry
>		
>		return loItem
>	endfunc	
>

>
>
>Well, that is the story, hope it helps.