That's the same way I did it, I'm sure I found another way in the end but haven't got the source code to hand - I will have a look later (it's my upcoming Outlook class for VFP).

>That's a pretty slick way of doing it, John. Good one.
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>What you bring up about the speed of lookup and data retrieval in Outlook is a good point. There are some suggestions at MSDN to use Outlook as a data store for Office development. The only thing I can say is "no no no". MS needs to do something about speeding up Outlook.
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>>The only way I can see to get the senders address is to begin the process of replying to the message. Of course, we don't actually have to send the reply.
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>>oReply = oMailitem.Reply
>>?oReply.Recipients.Item(1).Address
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