Peter,
So how are you sending it? The ones I know (CDOSYS, SendMessage and wwIPStuff) allow you to put contenttype ='text/plain' in message header.

PS: Actually I haven't yet found a way to send emails the way I want. They have goods and bads and trying to merge their goods. ie: I can send async emails from wwIPStuff but using that I have problems if user's account is set to use SSL etc. CDOSYS passes that but didn't yet learn how to send async from it:)
Also recently I switched from 'text/plain' (was default for wwIPStuff) to HTML because its layout was better < g >.
Cetin

>I'm doing all this from within VFP, press a button - call custom object SendMail wich builds the messagebody with Text...Endtext...TextMerge, adds the To, CC, Attachments a.s.o.
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>The user never sees the message, and the receipient is supposed to view it as text, otherwise it lokks like s...
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>So it's essential that the receipients Outllok be forced to open it as plain text.
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>>>Hi Cetin,
>>>
>>>It's the latter - but how and where?
>>>
>>>Outlook.Application does not have a ContentType, and neither does MailItem.
>>>
>>>So, where do I set this property?
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>>>BR
>>>
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>>>>If you mean how to send a message as plain text then set ContentType to 'text/plain'.
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>>Oh from within outlook select "Plain Text" from toolbar where it says HTML by default. Also you can make that default using options\Mail format.
>>Cetin