Shawn Gordon wrote in message ... does anyone know if there is a way to specify what font an email will use when sending through sendmail? If you are emailing a report for example, and the client has their default set to Arial, then none of the columns will line up because of the proportional font. If there was a way to specify the font that the email reader will use as a default then you could solve the problem yourself. thanks, shawn Shawn, this is what we did to solve the same problem: We studied up on MIME (mostly by reverse engineering emails sent by Outlook Express) and created emailed reports as "multipart-alternative". The first part is formatted as text/plain, and is intended for older email clients. The second part is text/html, with appropriate HTML tags, including <PRE> to tell the email client to use a fixed width font. I hope this helps.