Hi Peter i finished an article on my blog on this subject. i was tired of protocole problems fired from gmail for any vfp test code emailing or simply accessing to inbox. its some semi automatic methods for emails and see inbox contents from Gmail & windows courrier app(available on win10 only). read this link: http://yousfi.over-blog.com/2016/02/around-emails-inbox-with-gmail-and-courrier-apps.html