I did some sniffing with Ethereal - but I don't think it decodes outlook mapi. I am going to employ your recomendation.

But -

I found some code on a (believe it ot not!) a unix blog that claims it can expose the encoding (chr>128) of an open Outlook Calendar (mail receipt):

I do not have outlook on this desktop so I won't get to attempt it till next on site - but it goes something like this:

oOL=createobject('Outlook.Application')
oInsp=oOL.ActiveInspector()
oItem=oInsp.CurrentItem
oBody=oItem.Body

The secrets, according to the blog would all be in 'oBody'.

IMO: Probably easier said than done!

Do you have any idea what I am in for with the 'ActiveInspector' approach?

>No I don't think so. The way I usually check things like this is to attach a port monitor. I use PacketMon (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network.htm) and monitor Port 25. From there you can see what comes in and goes out over the SMTP connection.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>When we view a received email in Outlook - we're seeing the OL client rendering. OL provides "save as", but that does not seem to be the raw stuff. Anyway to view unadulterated Outlook script?
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>>Thanks