Hi Brian.

>>I've been look at some examples using MAPI and it doesn't appear to send the message until I (manually) open OE and Send/Receive. <<

Are you ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY WITHOUT A DOUBT sure of this. I have recently been doing a lot of testing with MAPI, and my experience has been that MAPI respects the settings in OE. IOW, if you have it configured to send immediately, the message does get send immediately when you issue This.oMessage.Send( 0 )