I use CDO to do just that. I’m not in the office until later today but when I get in I’ll send you some sample code if you wish?

John

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> On 21 Aug 2019, at 05:22, MB Software Solutions, LLC <mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:

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> VFP9SP2 app

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> Customer uses Outlook and wants the app to generate an email to a given email address from the app AND attach certain documents to it. Customer will preview it and then manually hit "Send" on their own.

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> What's the BEST (and hopefully easiest) way to implement this? Invoke Outlook via CREATEOBJECT and set properties and attachments accordingly? Typically in the past I've used MAILTO and ShellExec but this time the extra requirement is to have files attached from the application too, which makes MAILTO not an option, if I understand correctly.

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> tia,

> --Mike

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