You definitely want to work directly with Outlook's automation interface. Outlook 98 and 97 are almost 100% compatible. I have uploaded various samples to the UT files section.

>Hi All,
>I have an application that works fine sending e-mail through Outlook 97, but comes up with an OLE error using Outlook 98 (after exiting). Is there an upgrade to the Active-X MSMAPI32.OCX that I'm unaware of--or is there something else that I'm missing here?