Olin Lathrop wrote: > For a more detailed answer send you message using > PLAIN TEXT next time (not quoted printable). -------------------------- From Knowledge Base Articles OL2002: How Outlook Applies Encoding to Plain Text Messages Q278134: "Outlook 2002 does not expose the encoding choice as an option. If you use Exchange, the information store uses its own logic to determine encoding and ignores any setting that you might set in Outlook. Encode Intelligently Outlook 2002 encodes each plain text body part for which Outlook creates Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) by using the same algorithm that Exchange servers use to send plain text to the Internet. In general, if 25 percent or more of the message is comprised of 8-bit characters, Outlook uses Base 64 encoding, otherwise Outlook uses Quoted-Printable encoding." ---------------------- So " PLAIN TEXT" could be encoded "Quoted-Printable" :-) Christopher's posting header: . X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable . Mike, risking to be olinized as "wiseass" -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.