now I am nowhere near to being a programmer, and I am on very shaky ground here, trying to do this COM stuff.

This is the closest I have come to getting this to work... I can get the number of messages in the inbox, is that worth anything?

$OL = CreateObject("outlook.Application")
$mapi=$ol.getnamespace("mapi")
? $mapi

$inbox=$mapi.getdefaultfolder(6)
? $inbox

$count=$inbox.items.count
? $count

$first=$inbox.items(1).subject
? $first

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