>Hi Gavin,
>
>Thanks again for your response.
>Yes, I am using Outlook 2000. Does this version have any special behaviour?
>
>Thanks!

I read a couple threads that said that:
.oMailItem.UnRead = .F.
Mark's the message as Read.

But, I am looking at the message properties in my debugger and when I issue ".oMailItem.UnRead = .F."
The Locals' value for UnRead is still ".T."

I have only tried this on my test system, which has VFP 6 SPF4 and Outlook 2000; but does not connect to an ISP and ,of course, no exchange server.

Did you ever resolve your problem?