Mark,

There is an example of how to process the inbox of OE via MAPI over on my website. It's under Q&A, General, Article qGen015. But MAPI can't access anything but the Inbox though.

>I'm looking to interact with Outlook Express, probably via MSMAPI and VFP.
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>There are lots of FAQ's about sending messages, but that's not what I need to do.
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>I have various folders in OE with 50,000 plus messages that I regularly search through for information.
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>I want to export all of this email from OE into a VFP database, which I can then manipulate to slice & dice this info as necessary.
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>This doesn't even need to be an automated job as I am writing another VFP app to collect further info directly from the POP3 server.
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>All suggestions welcome.