>>Emily Ferguson wrote in part: >>1.6MB extra sounds like either you are doing something wrong, you have a serious configuration error, or some sort of virus/trojan is attaching itself to your images and/or email.<< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 "Thus, the actual length of MIME-compliant base64-encoded data is usually about 140% of the original data length." >From Guy's post: "Size of the email file (with the 4508K picture attach) = 6169 K". That's ~137% and consistent with the above explanation. Fred (lurker) Poway, CA