Hi Ken,

I agree, registering each item for events would be terrible. Presently I
see the NewInspector event and then the Open on the new message. You are
suggesting that I modify the new message during the Open event. That
makes sense. I was going through the message properties on a forwarded
message and I didn't see any references to the source message. Do you
know if Outlook tracks the original message id? Trying to match the new
message to one of many thousand others is going to be a bear too.

The desktop search apps are most likely calling in through a MAPI or CDO
API. I wonder if I can hook into that and intercept the forward/reply
request there?

Thanks for your help.

Paul