You have to urlencode CR and LF. See correction inline.

>I'm using the shellexecute to launch the email client and send the subject and body text.

>PARAMETERS lcSubject, lcMessagebody
>DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute ;
>    IN SHELL32.DLL ;
>    INTEGER nWinHandle,;
>    STRING cOperation,;
>    STRING cFileName,;
>    STRING cParameters,;
>    STRING cDirectory,;
>    INTEGER nShowWindow
>
>lcEmailAddress = warapprove.altname
>
***
lcMessageBody = strtran(lcMessageBody, chr(13)+chr(10), "%0d%0a" 
***
>ShellExecute(0, "", "mailto:" + lcEmailAddress + "?Subject=" + lcSubject + ;
>                    "&body=" + lcMessageBody, "", "", 1)

>
>
>The only problem I'm having is that all the returns are stripped out of the body when the text comes into the email client. Any ideas on how to preserve the returns in the edit box when the text comes over to the email?