in a program instead of making it open and visit a website, how can I make it so that it uses outlook express to send an email to a set addy.
If you wana send emails usually what you're looking for is the "smtplib" module. If you really really want to use Outlook from Python then you'll need to pick up Mark Hammonds excelent "win32all"
http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/
Mark.