Hello Everybody! I need some help to figure out this: i have a .net email applicaction that runs from command prompt, and it attaches a txt file to the email and sends it. You pass the from, to, subject and body of the email as parameters. is there a way to read from this textfile (about 4 lines of text though it varies), save the content of the file in a variable and pass the content of this variable as the mail body paremeter?? Example: i run the application like this: C:\JLMail from@mail, to@mail, subject, body, "C:\attachment.txt" so instead of writing this, save the content of the file: 1: failed 2: ok 3: failed to a variable and type this in the command prompt instead?: C:\JLMail from@mail, to@mail, subject, body, %variable% Any Help will be appreciated. thnx a lot

Since the end of a var is defiled by a line break, I can't see how. Some command line mailers will let you send a FILE as the body. [As well as attachments.] Like this one: =============================== Usage: mailto options mailto v1.6 Copyright (c) 1998 Scott Beasley Options are: -U sender id -D user ids -H smtp_host [-S subject] [-R Return path] [-M Message] [-MF Message file name] [-CC user ids] [-BCC user ids] [-AB Binary file names] [-AT Text file names] [-C config file] [-I section name] [-RC retry count] [-RW seconds to wait between each retry] [-DEBUG] [-N user id] ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Or maye putting all the lines in a single one, separated by a dash (line1-line2-line3)?? and save that into the variable?? My mailing application has the ability to attach the file to the message, but i want the content of the file in the body because it will be visualized through a mobile phone thnx a lot