I typed the full email address into the omessage.to=myname@someserver.com and that solved the problem of the email depending on the contact list. I should have thought of that earlier. Thanks again.

>>>It worked fine. My only concern is that the to: seemingly needs to exist in your contacts list for the email to work.
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>Glad that helped. I'll check out the to: requirement you mentioned after I get to the office Monday. I tested with my name, which is in the contact list already.