James,

To get it from the clipboard just use the _cliptext variable in VFP, of course that requires the person to be running Outlook, select the message, copy it to the clipboard and then switch to your application to get the email.

Does it work to use filetostr() on the .msg files?

>A fellow at Microsoft was kind enough to give me a bit of code for grabbing Outlook e-mail data from the Inbox, but he is out of the job now. I want to modify it to get the data not from the Outlook Inbox but instead from the message saved in a directory c:\datatemp (as xxx.msg) or from the Windows clipboard (even better).
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>*~ Get an object reference to the INBOX (GetDefaultfolder(6))
>goNameSpace = goOlk.GetNameSpace( 'MAPI' )
>goInbox = goNameSpace.GetDefaultfolder(6)
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>*~ loItems is a reference to the ITEMS collection in the INBOX.
>loItems = goInbox.Items
>liItemCount = loItems.Count