Jim: it's PUT not *PUT. The leading '*' would indicate a comment line which is ignored. The FRECP11 recipients of this mail item have received it from [log in to unmask] I had to resend the mail because of problems caused with the new RFC822 support I implemented in my LISTSERV. I think I should completely drop this full RFC822 support project as it creates problems with the Crosswell MAILER that does not support it. My new routines created a real-valid-superb RFC822 name field instead of removing "troublesome" characters as was done before, and lo and behold, MAILER bounced the thing back to me. Did I misunderstand something in RFC822? I thought that the following name field was valid: "\"James R. Gerland\"" The field is enclosed in double quotes, which is valid, and the backslash character is used to quote double-quotes inside the field, which is I think the way it should be done. Anyway this causes a syntax error in the From: field. I don't know what to do about this. It is not possible to create a network of mailing systems, each of which supporting about 75% of RFC822 (not always the same 75% besides), without a great deal of luck. Eric