Ok I got it to work somewhat, I have outlook sending the message and when it receives the message all looks like good HTML using the HTMLBODY property and setting the text acccordingly and inserting img tags with a src = to a picture on the web. However when I send the message to AOL, yahoo and other similiar addresses I dont see the message as an HTML message, I just see poorly formatted text. When I go into outlook and forward the same message to these accounts it looks the way I want it to appear. Does anyone have any suggestions?