Dear all, Apologies to the entire mailbase and its admin for flouting the rules, and special apologies to those who have suffered personally from these large files. I had attached them in the faulty assumption that the files do not come along with the mail but remain on the server until explicitely downloaded by click. Your comments have brought me down to earth with a bump. Definitely, this error is not going to happen again. With friendly regards Kerstin Eckstein %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%