>>I'm still working on a way to get around it if you have a sysadmin ruling with an iron fist. I thought I could get a window handle (I can) and use SendMessage to send the key strokes, but I only get one thread to work with in VFP and that thread is busy waiting for Outlook to return from the dialog. Doh!
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>Thanks for the response and the effort/time you are putting in on this.

Using extended MAPI isn't going to work because there are too many pointers to pointers and callbacks involved. Soooooo, let's use a COM add-in. With 7.0, I can implement the necessary interfaces, but Microsoft has locked down their email servers so tight that I can't install it without an act of God. Today's goal: set up my own Exchange server for testing. Once I've established that it works, I'll post the code here and make a whitepaper out of it later.