Outlook Express is NOT an automation server. If you want to work with mail clients, download my MAPI Class from the files section. Does all the work for you.

>I have tried to instantiate the outlook application / outlook express
>oOutLookObject = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
>I get an error message saying that the class definition is not found.
>How can I create the definition? Is it documented somewhere? Can it be downloaded?
>Is there a common method of accessing email applications. I'm trying not to hard code the app, but if that is the only way , then I guess I will so it will be functional.
>
>Any help on this would be great.
> I can do the following to control Microsoft Word.
> oWordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
> oWordApp.Visible = .t.
> oWordApp.Quit()
> oWordApp=.Null.
>
>My thanks to Barbara for jump starting me on this. I didn;t think I would stall out so quickly.