Well Im using outlook on my local machine to send the email(using Activestate Perl), rather than going straight thru the SMTP server. My scripts using the SMTP server worked for about 2 weeks(about 3 months ago). I started using sendmail on unix to send .csv attachments instead of .xls(for some reason the .xls files were getting corrupted). My clients prefer .xls so now Im trying to send it with Outlook. They are trying to secure the whole network here at work. We will soon be using SSH and SFTP rather than telnet and FTP. I will have to make some more changes to my scripts :(