Well, I don't have any answers for you then. Are you positive that you are
getting a valid MAPIFolder object and Items collection? Can you retrieve the
Items.Count?

It isn't possible that the item could be encrypted or signed is it?

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"Bill" wrote in message
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A Mail item is being retrieved.

I Googled this error message and got one hit in ...outlook.program_vba,
where, in retrospect, I should have posted this question in the first place.
The solution there was a permissions issue, which I do not believe to be the
case here. I had already given myself godlike privileges to the email box in
question. To verify this, I opened a message, performed an Edit Message and
successfully saved the changed message.