That is exactly what my code does - it brings up the default email client, and waits for the user to hit send (or edit the message).

I'd try Jesse's solution -- that sounds quite likely to work. Let me know how that turns out. What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable . . . and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? -- Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii.

So, this found it's way into the CP forum code yet...? ;P Shog9 I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong...

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Ooohhhhh... complexity. I really wasn't looking forward to writing a parser. I would have been too scared and just settled for a physical line counter. Not as pretty, but it would be fast. I may check that tool out. Thanks. --- John