Wild thoughts: Debug.Print the body before and after the send.
Try Chr() on the first character.
Is the text missing just from the OL interface, or have you tried
looking at .Body (in the sent folder) programmatically?

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:22:00 -0700, Markus
wrote:

"Markus" wrote in message
...
I have been able to send HTML email programmatically thru Outlook from
within
my app. The message is received by the recipient, and the email is
recorded
as sent in the Outllook sent box. But the message in the sent box is
empty.

I basically read the html email message from a .htm file, assign the
message
to a variable, and then assign the value of this variable to the HTMLbody
property. I then .send() the email thru Outlook, and the message is
received
fine. The email is registered in the Outlook sent box as being sent, but
the
message there is completely blank.

Can anyone give me some ideas on what I may be missing?

Many thanks,
Mark