Hi Allen. Check out Nigel's mapi email class. If I am not mistaken, it now has the ability to read incoming messages from any mapi compliant email program.

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>I'm creating an app that needs to read the received messages in the user's email file. This is INBOX.* in MSIE and Netscape. The problem is, I don't know where this file might be located depending on the particular email client being used and how and where the client was installed. Here are some possible approaches:
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>Is there a way to know the current default path and file name for email somewhere in Windows?
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>Is there a way to search all directories from the root to locate a file?
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>If I could search all files in all directories looking for a specific text string it would be fine, because the user will have an email having a distinctive phrase (an email sent previously). So, if they find it, that's the email file they are currently using.
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>Windows Explorer can locate a file, but I want my app's setup routine to do it automatically.
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>Any ideas?
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>Thanks,
>Allen