That is an excellent idea. As you can Tell Perl is a litte new to me, and I haven't gotten all its tricks learned yet, but i certaintly see the value of organizing the Insert statement in that manner. I also found that the recursive subroutive can't handle(at least on the machine I'm running this on) more than 5 attachments, depending on their size. I was able to upload 39768 out of 40321 messages successfully by limiting the subroutine in that manner. The only failures were due to bad character data from the attachements. Apparently I have missed a quotation mark somewhere, and I think your organized SQL builder will help with that. Much Appreciated.
Ketema