Hey, my problem is that I send an e-mail with an attachment (pdf file). I get the filename out of a mysql table. While using echo or downloading the file, the filename is showed as expected but as an attachment it is not properly encoded: Should be: PC-Beschaffung 2008 (nur für Lehre) Will be: US-ASCII''PC-Beschaffung%202008%20(nur%20f%C3%BCr%20Lehre) I think I have to encode the file name and already tried utf8encode but this didn't help. -eddy