Cindy,

>I get the reply in the inbox too, even with my other (non-notes) mail account. The problem may be Outlook. I havent checked the Outlook newsgroups yet for a solution.
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>I can access my notes attachments OK in Outlook.

I'm not exactly sure what the problem is. More often than not Outlook freezes. Perhaps it has to do with the nature of the attachment (SmartSuite documents).
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>>Unfortunately, due to the dreadful design of the interface, you have to use a mouse click (AFAIK) to get to the mail page. IOW, you can't indicate a hot key to bring it up. If you could it would simply be a matter of using SendKeys to send the appropriate combination. You could use something other than the basic page, which would include the in box.
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>I was thinkging that with automation you could make this mouse click and then make it all visible when you're on the inbox page.

I'll defer to Larry on this. I know nothing of automation with Notes. As he mentioned in his post to me, 5.0.2b allows the passage of the password as a parameter. He'd know much more about this than I. Still, I imagine that you could use a VBScript file to launch Notes and provide it the password.