do you use outlook express? that is what I use. I have a friend with msn. if she sends me an attached e-mail, I have to save it to my desktop and change the ending to .eml in order to read it. A real pain, but it works. if she just sends me a regular e-mail, it comes in normal to me. Cris ----- Original Message ----- From: Sdunlap3@xxxxxxx To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 10:11 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 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