>>oform = CREATEOBJECT("form")
>>oform.ADDOBJECT("Session1","olecontrol","MSMAPI.mapiSession")
>>oform.ADDOBJECT("Message1","olecontrol","MSMAPI.mapiMessages")
>>oform.Session1.signon
>>oform.Message1.sessionid = oform.Session1.sessionid
>>oform.Message1.compose
>>oform.Session1.signoff
>>RELEASE oform
>
>I receive no errors, but it did not prompt me to create a message... I assumed that the compose method would run the Outlook message compose screen???

No, that's fine as is. The above code doesn't do anything but create and release without user interface - no errors is good news. That's all the most important part, and thanks for testing.