>>Dig this, just playing, I decided to run it in VFP 7, works like a champ! What's that all about? I guess we can drop it and I can create the application from 7, gives me an excuse to use it and get some practice.
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>In VFP7 you don't even need VFPCOM, check out the EventHandler() method.

Sounds good, I'll take a look at that and maybe redo the code. The idea here wasn't to just have a messagebox pop up when I get mail. Our VPN here at work is so undependable that I can't depend on it to get files I need when I'm away, so I was going to write a mailer that if I included a special subject line and the path and file name in the body, it would grab that file and send it back to me (or post it to our ftp site if it is to big to mail). Thanks for all the help, Mike. Are you running VFP7?
John