Jim,
A followup:
Since you do want the user to see the message and hit send, you can use ShellExecute. This will put the message in sent items after the user hits send; it uses the default mail client on the machine.
See
http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk/foxst-22.htm for a VFP example.
>hi Steve,
>
>I could do that only if the email message would be stored in the outbox of the default email client. Would it?
>
Steve Gibson