Reading Outlook express Mails

I would want my VB application to read an Outlook express mail session that has not been opened by my application. (i.e. If i manually open Outlook Express and select a mail to be read, my apllication should be able to read the subject and message of the selected mail).

Microsoft does not define any object hierarchy to read Outlook Express mails. Is there any way to solve this problem?.

Not with Outlook Express.

Robby, do u mean that we cannot write Vb applications that would read a mail opened in Outlook Express?

Is this possible by using windows API ?? or do u know of any other methods to achieve this