I suggest you tell your people that your program only supports Outlook. We have done that for years, with no protests whatsoever from our many clients.

Outlook Express is difficult, if not impossible, to control from VFP. Also Outlook Express is no longer available from Microsoft, AFAIK. The only similarity between Outlook and Express is partly what they do, and the name. Apart from that they are two entirely different programs.

>hi all,
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>i am working on a vfp6 application for a client of mine.
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>i am trying to automate the process of sending e-mails through my vfp software.
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>but, at this client's office, some users have outlook express as the email client whereas some have microsoft outlook as the e-mail client.
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>how do i handle the above situation ? how can i figure out through my software as to which is the default email client for a given user and then proceed to use either MAPI or OLE automation.
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>with sincere thanks.