So I'm probably just missing something really simple :-/ but when I try to send a message using SendMail the message sends but the body and the subject are always empty :( .... The email sends fine but yea it's always empty...... I know I'm able to send and receive emails because newsletters and notifications all get send without a problem

 DotNetNuke.Services.Mail.Mail.SendMail(
               "<FROM>",
               "<TO>",
               "",
               "New File Uploaded to the Server",
               "BODY",
               "text",
               "",
               "",
               "",
               "",
               "");

DotNetNuke Version:

04.08.02

The depricated SendNotification works fine though

DotNetNuke.Common.Globals.SendNotification(
                "<FROM>",
               "<TO>",
               "",
               "subject 1",
               "body");

Sends the email just fine

I cannot find an overload, that matches your parameters, closest is

Public Shared Function SendMail(ByVal MailFrom As String, ByVal MailTo As String, ByVal Bcc As String, _
                                ByVal Subject As String, ByVal Body As String, ByVal Attachment As String, ByVal BodyType As String, _
                                ByVal SMTPServer As String, ByVal SMTPAuthentication As String, ByVal SMTPUsername As String, ByVal SMTPPassword As String) As String

but you cannot pass "text" as attachment and need to specify the BodyType. This overload exisits for backwards compatibilty, I suggest to use one of the subsequent overloads with improved type security.