Hi, > Does your Exmerge log state "MAPI Intialized" near the beginning? Yes, in fact I saw several such lines through the log: [00:51:50] MAPI uninitialized. [00:52:21] Successfully initialized MAPI. [00:52:21] MAPI Logon successful. [00:52:23] MAPI uninitialized. [00:52:23] Successfully initialized MAPI. [00:52:23] MAPI uninitialized. [00:52:23] Successfully initialized MAPI. [00:52:23] MAPI Logon successful. [02:10:38] MAPI uninitialized. so in retrospect, would you agree this looks OK? best regards Mike