SQL Mail not working properly

Thanks for the links, there looks like some interesting ways of getting SQM Mail to do exactly what is needed.  This does not, however, answer the question of why it is sending an email for a backup but not for a db maintenance plan report

Thanks Martin/TAB8,
I see what you are saying.  I hope that the windows service packs have not broken SQL Mail as it might be tricky getting the service packs out again.  I would rather not have to do to much work on the SQL Server regarding mail as the server is due to be replaced in the not to distant future.  I have got a lot of info ouof SQL Query Analyser but no more than the version for Outlook. Hope is enough...

Outlook info
Outlook 2000
SP3 (9.0.0.6627)

SQL Server info
SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ProductLevel')
Microsoft SQL Server  2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)   Dec 17 2002 14:22:05   Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation  Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 4)

SERVERPROPERTY('ProductLevel')
SP3

sp_server_info
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18      COLLATION_SEQ      charset=iso_1 collation=Latin1_General_CI_AS
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104      ACCESSIBLE_SPROC      Y
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109      INCREASE_COLUMN_LENGTH      Y
110      DDL_IN_TRANSACTION      Y
111      DESCENDING_INDEXES      Y
112      SP_RENAME      Y
113      REMOTE_SPROC      Y
500      SYS_SPROC_VERSION      8.00.375

master..xp_msver
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3      Language      1033      English (United States)
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9      InternalName      NULL      SQLSERVR
10      LegalCopyright      NULL      © 1988-2003 Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.
11      LegalTrademarks      NULL      Microsoft® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows(TM) is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation
12      OriginalFilename      NULL      SQLSERVR.EXE
13      PrivateBuild      NULL      NULL
14      SpecialBuild      49807360      NULL
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20      Product ID      NULL      NULL