Gordon,

The code I posted was for Outlook Express 4.01 as the Simple MAPI client. Other mail programs may deal with the attachments differently. You should be able to get the correct filenames from the GetAttachment() method and the properties set by that method.

>I'd like to sort it today.
>My consern was that when Iooked in the temp dir the files had alias's like mai,mai0,mai1.......
>Now I can studdy your code snippet to see how it's done.