Open an outlook message from the command line

Hi all,

I want to open a specific message from a hyperlink using the syntax
outlook:inbox/~subject - which basically means I call outlook with the
command line switch /select. According to MS this should work.

The thing is, I only got outlook:inbox to work. When I add the subject
I get a message saying the element can't be opened due to an invalid
parameter.

Unfortunatly I couldn't find a description (or at least some examples)
of a working parameter syntax.

To make it even more complicated I need to use the messageID instead
of the subject as an identifier for the message. I couldn't even find
a hint whether this works at all, though.

I'd greatly appriciate it if you could point me to some resources or
give me a hint how it works.

Yours,
Viola