+| >From the "maybe it's not really a dumb question" +| department An additional memo from that same department: "have you set the type of the attachment?" Per MSDN: CdoFileData 1 Attachment is the contents of a file. (Default value.) CdoEmbeddedMessage 4 Attachment is an embedded message. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cdo/html/_d enali_type_property_cdonts_attachment_object_.asp Maybe somehow the type is CdoEmbeddedMessage? <rory disposition="hmmmm..." alt="81"/>