Hi, I'm using outlook express and I can send and receive e-mails fine except for e-mail addresses with dashes e.g. (sales@wirefree-mobile.com) - They just won't send. Thanks in advance. Ben

A piece of advice; take it or ignore it: Blow off Outlook Express, Eudora, or any Microsoft email software, as it is the most easily hacked and insecure email to use... there are a ton of free web-based email addresses that one could use, and your info is not stored locally, thereby (somewhat) reducing the chance of being the victim (or carrier) of nasty viruses, worms, trojans etc. Here's an excerpt of an interesting thing regarding Outlook: hen a message is sent from Outlook in RTF format, Outlook attaches a file named winmail.dat. This file is used for transmitting the RTF-specific formatting information. If the recipient opens the email in Outlook they will not see the attachment. Additionally, default behaviour of Exchange Server 5.5 appears to strip the attachment from messages going to recipients external to the organization. In the situation of an Outlook user with a POP3/SMTP account (such as their ISP) sending a message to someone who uses an email client other than Outlook (a Hotmail account for example) the recipient will see winmail.dat listed as an attachment. Upon opening winmail.dat with a text viewer you can clearly make out a line that contains the full path to the .pst location on the sender's hard drive. Since this is located by default in the users profile directory, you can see the sender's NT account name as well as the domain name. The attachment of winmail.dat in Outlook RTF emails is documented in MS KB articles. They detail how to prevent the attachment of winmail.dat (configure the removal at the Exchange Server level, or don't use RTF formatting in your Outlook client). However they do not document what is contained in winmail.dat. Upon contacting secure@microsoft about this (4 months ago) I was informed a KB article detailing the contents of winmail.dat would be forthcoming (I cannot yet locate anything on their site). This behaviour was seen in Outlook 2000. I have not tested previous versions of Outlook, but judging by the KB articles, previous versions of Outlook have the exact same behaviour in regards to winmail.dat as Outlook 2000. HTH, tm.

I do have a yahoo e-mail address, but I like my beeb e-mail and I need to send an e-mail to a company who might be funny if I am using another address to reply. Any ideas (p.s. - Thanks for the advance - i'll take good note of it)