i can work with this - great idea. however i have just tried multiple versions of the syntax without sucess. Do you have one that would work or do i need to set this up entirely differently now. what i am getting for the body is 'c:\sample.html' and not the actualy html or else if i get the raw html code (my email is set to html and still i get the code.) I am obviously missing something here.

lcBody = c:\sample.html (X)
lcBody = 'c:\sample.html' (X)
lcBody = ('c:\sample.html') (X)
filetostr gives me the html code (X)