Guys, I have mhonarc to go and and rip mbox files and caret html pages. my problem is that I can figure out why mhonarc will convert some pdf attachments to binXXXXX.bin files and convert other pdf files to pdfXXXXX.pdf files. Thanks. -- Fazal Aslam Fazal.Aslam@Tellabs.com Engineering Software Tools Lisle, IL