>messages interpreted correctly or not Daniel, I think that I know what is up. The messages that you said 'were not interpreted correctly' contain (broken ?) mime or HTML or Unicode escapes. I also get characters like 0x3D in the middle of text sometimes (usually after an equal sign). It would be helpful if you would post the full headers for two messages (one good one bad). thank you and good luck (good hunt), Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.