You're welcome. You may want to use CDO constants for readability http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/cdo-2000-constants

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>Absolutely perfect, worked first time, just what I was looking for thanks.
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>Nick
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>Try
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>? toMsg.Fields.Item("urn:schemas:mailheader:message-id").Value
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>>Moving on from there I can now refer to the fixed fields by their short name but how to refer to the fields that are not included in this short name list?