>thanks for the clues Vlad
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> Spent the afternoon working on the code from west-wind but finally got it to work. The problem with the "outlook application" is that I could not find any listing of the attributes of the object that I could access with VFP. All the MS MSDN Help was based on VBScript that did'n trnaslate very well.
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>Sandy

For examples on sending mail through Outlook Automation, check the Fox Wiki at:
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~AutomationExamples~VFP

or get the excellent book from Della and Tamar on Office Automation:
Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro (www.hentzenwerke.com)