>I have used mapi to automate the mail service but what i would like to do is programatically gather the names of the recipients and then launch outlook with the recipients prefilled. Has anyone tackled this one? Thanks Jeff

Check out my class in the files section. This will allow you to send to multiple recipients. All the work is done, you just call a method. Jeff: if you want to launch Outlook with everything prefilled, change the send(0) command to send(1) - this will just open the mail, not send it.