This may not be an option, but I recommend using the sendmail MTA as an alternative to mucking about with Outlook and OLE. Now you may say to me, "Sendmail? Isn't that a Unix thing?" and I'd say "Yes, but" there is a sendmail binary included in the NT Resource Kit that you can use! Convenient, no?

Try this:

# I forget the exact path to sendmail in NT.
# -t tells sendmail to scan the message for To:, From:, etc.
$sendmail = 'c:\bin\sendmail.exe -t';

open(MAIL, ">$sendmail") || die 'Could not load sendmail!';
print MAIL <<EOF
To: batgnat@hiscorp.com
From: fileserver@hiscorp.com
Subject: 2GB Warning on File Server

Your fileserver has less than 2GB of free disk space.
EOF

close(MAIL);
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Don't forget the extra break after the Subject line.

Hope this helps!

Friar 'kaboo
avoiding NT problems with archaic Unix solutions since 1996 {g}