Hi Bruce.

Marcia, I'm not understanding your suggestion, perhaps because it doesn't pertain to the mail system I'm stuck with. Is that about right?

I am, by no means, an expert on mail systems,but didn;t you say you were using Exchange Server? If so, I think you can still go to some flavor of Cdo depending on the version of Exchange and/or the OS. At least that is my impression from all the crap I have waded through in the MSDN library < vbg >

Checkout the Messaging and Collaboration Services section of the Platform SDK documentation. And if you manage to understand it all, please send me an e-mail and explain it to me too, if you wouldn't mind.

We may have to consider not purchasing about 1500 Office XP licenses if there is no fix for the nuisance message (Someone from MS sales can reply to this?? :-)

The only way that I know of around the security patch is to download “Outlook Redemption", a DLL written by Dmitry Streblechenko, a Microsoft Outlook MVP, which implements the Extended MAPI interfaces to Outlook. It is available for download at http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/download.htm and is free unless you are distributing it in commercial software, in which case it costs $99.99.