My forum running on Brinkster General Account (freebie) which does not support email component but forum is enabled to handle it by using CDOSYS (a la/thanks to Richard).... and V4b03.005 is set with CDOSYS (IIS 5/5 1/6)....
if you want the cdosys info: objNewMail.BodyPart.SetLocaleIDs(65001) or for charset: objNewMail.BodyPart.Charset = "iso-8859-X" replace x with the appropriate number<