Sue, I use exactly that right now, the problem is, I have several folders underneath my mailbox root and underneath default folders like inbox, I take one user at a time and have to iterate though all the folders and items in them to find if the user+item+date matches, this serves my purpose but is deadly slow when the number of items are many(some 5000), I was hoping if there is something like a SQL query which is more efficient than this method. See the code below MySearchCriteria = "[Received] > '" & MyDateStart & "' and [Received] < '" & MyDateEnd & "'" Set MyResultItems = AllInboxItems.Restrict(MySearchCriteria) MyResultItems.Sort ("[From]") This however doesn't give me "group by" -Am "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" <suemvp@outlookcode.com> wrote in message news:%23petdKwyIHA.3384@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... You can use the Items.Restrict method to filter by date range -- see http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=30 -- and add criteria for the sender. The resulting Items collection will have a Count property. "Amiable" <achaudhary311@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eZASzpuyIHA.2184@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...