Larry after Tracy,

> Tracy Johnson wrote:
> > I use MS/Outlook as a client.  I think it is a great
> grandchild of Eudora.
> >
> > I use PINE on my ISP host to "preview" all my messages in
> text mode before
> > I endanger my PC by downloading any attachments with
> MS/Outlook.  I can
> > delete it at the host.

> I also use Outlook, but I do just the opposite activity.  I have it
> configured to delete the messages off the mail server.  If OL blows, I
> immediately jump on the mail server and use ELM to check the
> first message.

First - Outlook has a Remote Mail feature -- on install, you can enable it
for this feature.  It will pull the headers of mail waiting on the server
and let you download only what you want to download.

Secondly -- on the "blankness" - the message you were referring to was RTF.
Outlook should have been able to handle that.  If not - the text was:

<<snipped text inserted here>>

Or write your own socket-based applications. All logic running on the HP,
less data traffic on your network. Although this approach is better for GUI
applications than for reports I guess. On the other hand we publish reports
on our intranet server that ran on the HP and were transfered to the server
with Reflection commands in a Cobol file transfer program.

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Cheers,
Joe