hello i had to create a html form where the user can enter his email address and select over a few check boxes several pdf-files which then get attached to an email and finally sent to the users address. 1. the problem is a <dtml-if> or a <dtml-in> tag within the <dtml-sendmail> tag causes an error and so it does not seem possible to me to evaluate the users input in dtml only. but i have to evaluate because there are up to twelve files to select. 2. so i wrote an external method which does the job. it works and creates an fine email with the selected files attached. the only problem that the pdf files are presented on the web site as well and therefor integrated in zope and the external method i wrote reads them from the file system because i could not access the file data in zope from the external method. so i have the pdfs twice once on the file system and once in zope. so, is it possible to access data which are actually in zope through an external method? is there an easier way around this? have a nice time -- stef