When faced with text encoding schemes the best thing is to choose none. This will set it so that text that is considered "embeded" in the message will not be encoded but rather sent as the text it is. Otherwise you will sometimes get text that is then converted to something besides clean ascii. This may be the couse of David's problems. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Nowlan's Theory: He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit.