Interesting. I would think you should be able to copy the text from the source view. But then again, I've never used Earthlink or their tools. I did a quick net and newsgroup scan for anything similar with Earthlink, but couldn't find anything of help. I do know in Outlook and Outlook Express there is an option that can be configured to automatically remove anything it considers to be an "unsafe" attachment (which seems to be everything it sees). Does TotalAccess have something similar? It may be a feature similar to this that is preventing you from accessing the file. It may also be a result of any built-in spam blocking features, which can get carried away sometimes.