chromatic,
part one of your answer seems to work, but part two is causing some confusion.

Dave writes:
Ok, I tried 'test' for the mailer type everything worked. I could not get the indented dot on the format to work. Either incomplete format errors or the same old write to closed file handle error.

If there is any example code on an indented format it would be appreciatted.

I ended up writing the report to a temp file and then printing it into the mailer handle. Everything works like a charm. Inefficient, but it works Thanks to everyone There endeth the message. TIA