Sue I am way behind in my mail so this may be late. Change the ".email" to ".eml" then it will open in OE if that is the mail program you use. Yours Hank ----- Original Message ----- From: Sdunlap3@xxxxxxx To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 9:11 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Problem With Opening MSN e-mails I don't seem to be able to open a lot of the e-mail that comes from people on MSN. The messages have to be downloaded, and they have the title and then ".email" following that. After I download the message and click on the "Open File", a message comes up that this is "too large for Notepad to open - would you like to use Word Pad to read this file?" When I say yes, the message comes up all garbled up, like it is in code. I downloaded a decoder quite some time ago and it used to work most of the time. It used to say "file was decoded, do you want to open it?" Now, when I right click on the e-mail in my download file and say "decode", a message comes up that says "File was decoded". After it says "file was decoded", it doesn't tell me how to open the e-mail. I hope this makes sense, it's the only way I know to explain it. Thanks for any help, Sue To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk