Thanks for your help Sue, looks like I'm having terminology problems as well
then. Not quite sure on the difference between `posting a message' and
`sending a message'.

Will Outlook allow me to change the form an email uses when it arrives in
the inbox? I seem to be able to get everything to work accept having new
messages automagically use the new form.

Yesterday, I did find a way of changing what Outlook uses as the default
email form with an MS app called Forms Administrator but it changes the
default form for *all* emails, which I don't want and requires a client side
reg edit which I would also like to avoid.

I was hoping that the user would not have to be involved in this process at
all as the forms aren't intended to compose new messages only allow a
tracking number to be added to messages arriving from the internet.

Any insights you could give me that might help achieve this would be great.

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np


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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Messages are intended to be sent, not posted to folders. Therefore, the
default form for a folder cannot be a message form. You can still launch the
form from the Action menu in the Inbox.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"Demon News" wrote in message
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I'm new to this so bear with me.

I wanted to add a new field to the form new emails use. I used an email
from
the inbox and did a `design this form', then published the form to the
inbox
folder with the new field added. My problem is that when I go to the `When
posting to the folder, use' and tried to set the default form to the new
one
I get the error; `You cannot create an item of this type in this folder.'

I understand that the form an email message uses is an IPM.Note. So why
then
is the default form for the Inbox IPM.Post ?

Am I missing something fundamental here?

Thx.
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np