Add a dummy item to a folder

Hi,

I've written an addin that adds folders to Outlook, and sets the HTML page

they display. What I'd like to be able to do is place "dummy" items in the

folders so that they show an unread or total count in the tree view. I've 
tried to add a mail item to the folder, but got some very generic error 
message.

Is there some trick to doing this? I don't necessarily have an item I need

to add, I just want the counts to show.

Dino