When I add a subscriber with an umlaut in his name to my list AMALGAM, I can observe a special problem. I will give you an example: I use the command add amalgam [log in to unmask] Hans Müller in order to add the subscriber. Then, I use 'review amalgam', and I can see the umlaut in the list: [log in to unmask] Hans Müller [concealed] But the message "You have been added to the AMALGAM list" which is sent to the new subscriber does apparently not contain the umlaut in an acceptable encoding scheme: ... Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:04:15 +0200 From: L-Soft list server at Fraunhofer IMK for DFNList (1.8e) <[log in to unmask]> Subject: You have been added to the AMALGAM list To: Hans MXller <[log in to unmask]> ... ØØØ In this case, LISTSERV should use an "encoded-word" instead of the 8bit character. When an unencoded umlaut appears in a "To:" field, some SMTP Servers may decide to discard such a message and therefore, umlauts should be embedded in 'encoded-words'. But it appears to me that LISTSERV (1.8e) does not use 'encoded-words' in this case. Why? Kind regards, Siegfried