Unless you need it (ie wenna do it in VB) that is the path of least resistence.

Thanks for your comments. I tried this afternoon in VB,before reading your suggestion, doing it via Outlook. Works ok but pops up with lots of warning messages for each message (as I am personalising them) and I need to send a few hundred at a time, so it would involve lots of clicking....

thanks for the suggestions
regards,

Gerard

That's the problem, it 'works' but you need the patches to assign your code 'trusted code status' to get rid of the 2 warnings for every email. You can't even use Win32::GUITest (BTDT) to click the buttons as M$ have removed the tab focus functionality from the dialogs and pop the warnings at somewhat random x,y coords on the screen so you can't deal with it will sendkeys or click coord.

cheers

tachyon