I meant that I "encouarge people to use Base 64 instead of Quoted-Printable". QP gets half way there. QP is readable enough that if the recipient has a non-MIME MUA, s/he can make a good guess as to what the sender was trying to say. But people are a whole lot smarter than machines w/r/t such fuzzy logic. If folks use Base 64 instead, and the mail is delivered to a non-MIME MUA, then it's totally unreadable, which will result in the sender re-sending with some other means (even QP, though only as a second pass) -or- the reader complaining to local management to GET a MIME-compliant MUA, in which case everyone wins. Use Base 64. -- Rick Troth, BMC Software, Inc. <[log in to unmask]> <USNMNEWN@IBMMAIL> 2101 City West Blvd., Houston, Texas, USA, 77042 1-800-841-2031 * T H E B E S T L I T T L E S O F T W A R E H O U S E I N T E X A S * DMSINI1255T