Have you any idea of what the attachment might be? For instance was it a Word document? Might it have been an image? If you do not know and you are prepared to forward it to me, if it is not personal, I will have a look and send it back to you Susan. Eleanor -original message- Subject: [vip_students] unable to read an email From: "Susan Curry" <SusanCurry@xxxxxxx> Date: 26/07/2010 7:22 pm hi folks, i recieved an email the other day with an attachment but when i opened the attachment my computer would not read it. does any one know why this is? best wishes susan -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1713 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message