Bret,

I'm not sure about that. The user has to have an email client set up on the machine. If the system doesn't understand mailto (which is what gets used when you click a mailto link inside your browser) ShellExecute will return an error code.

I think you can search the registry for a mailto key and not give them the option if it's not there.

>David when exporting a vfp exe that contains the above mailto:, are there any activex controls that need to be included because we are using the mailto command?