You dont need to envoke Internet Explorer
just Shellexecute.
mailto:my can be run from the start run. Loads up the email app, defined in the internet propertites of the computer.
download the sh_execute class
then something like this.

os=create("sh_execute")
m_cmd ='mailto:me@myserver.com?cc:bobl@1amsoftware.com&subject='test subject'
os.shellexecute(m_cmd) 

Thats it. starts your email program, addresses it, puts in a subject.
add something like
&body='my email body' into the command string, and you have a body for the email as well.
Hope this helps.

Bob Lee





>>thanks
>>i already have outlook working but i wont always know what the user default email program they are using
>>fc
>
>You might be able to do this automating internet explorer like so:
>

oIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
>oIE.Navigate2("mailto:")

>I believe there is also another way of invoking the default mail client, I don't recall at this time.
>
>Also you can roll your own form with the required fields and use this MAPI class from the UT downloads: http://www.levelextreme.com/wconnect/wc.dll?FournierTransformation~2,54,Forum=5,28,1034
>This way you don't need to know what the default client is.
>(sorry that previous post went before I intended it to)
>HTH