Ken

Thanks for the really quick response. I am actually doing that -
setting cancel = true (in MailItem_Send event) and that works fine. I
was thinking the implementation was something different. Beucase when
i do that - that ofcourse stops the email from going out - but the
actual email stays open.

Reading back your first post - it means that after doing that
(cancel=true) I need to call the MyItem.Save first (which I believe
will save it in inbox) and then MyItem.Close or something similar (do
i need to call that because i belive the save only saves the email but
does not close it)

Does that approach sound right?

Thanks a lot once again. really helping me