We are having a problem with a developer's DISTRIBUTE job on Windows ListServ. He's creating it via Java.Mail and for some reason the top lines in the job are having their line endings altered. Example; //URACCTIDRT JOB REPLY-TO="[log in to unmask]", ECHO=YES // DISTRIBUTE MAIL-MERGE [log in to unmask] PW = xxxxx //TO DD * *XDFN [log in to unmask] PROBE /* //DATA DD *,EOF From: Web site <[log in to unmask]> Date: &*DATE; Make note of the normal wrapping starting at the /*, even though they used the same line endings throughout. What's even odder is what ListServ does with it. ListServ accepts it, says it processes it and sent a response to [log in to unmask], but it simply create a .mail file in the ListServ Spool. The SMTP work then generate error messages one a minute ([10060]) until ListServ is stopped, the .mail files removed from the queue, then restarted. You can't move the .mail files with ListServ up because it complains the files are in use. I can see the problems with the formatting being an issue, but ListServ's handling also seems odd because it apparently parses out the email address from the XDFN correctly (based on the log file). Keith Stone Winston Salem, NC