Sorry for shooting at the dark and raising a real open ended question. Well i have this now...i am automating sending e-mails to a notes client on windows using "win32::ole" module...if i were to do the same on a AIX or a Solaris platform, what module would i have to use to launch the notes client. Hopefully this question was not an open ended one, coz i am really looking for some help in this matter.