Your minimum HTML must look like this: <html> <head> <title> </title> </head> <body> </body> </html>
send the email again, only start Outlook express instead ( I am only suggesting OE because I don't use TB), select the email, Right click, properties,details, message source, and verify that all the minimums are included, with your BODY variable text is in its proper location. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Hamilton" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 9:53 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - R:Mailing HTML : Hi all - I'm trying to send an html formatted email using R:Mail 7.6 and : can't get it to appear as html when I receive it - it appears as text : with all the html coding, e.g. : {\rtf1\fbidis\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 : Arial Rounded MT Bold;} : : The body of the email is in a table where it is stored as RTF. : I read it into vBody, a VARCHAR variable, and it looks ok tracing it, : i.e. it has the html coding : I have the format set as vFormat TEXT = ('Format:H') : : OUTPUT SHOZEmail.mal : WRITE .vMailTo : WRITE .vFrom : WRITE .vSubject : WRITE .vCC : WRITE .vBCC : WRITE .vAttachment : WRITE .vFormat : WRITE .vPriority : WRITE .vRtrnReceipt : WRITE .vBody : OUTPUT SCREEN : : My email client, Thunderbird, receives all other emails correctly. : : Blues clues suggestions? : : TIA, : Doug : :

