It is simply a modified IBM NOTE exec, registered hack number 5749DMS00/NOTE/239485, which sends the stuff out with a filetype of MAIL. And here you are, it gets interpreted as RFC822 and is found to be of the following form: From: userid@node name (no angle brackets) Hence the userid@node becomes 'CAROLE'. This is grossly incorrect of course. I'll have to run the new parser through it to see what it says -- I bet it shouts out that there's an error. Right, it says: I Empty 'From:' field found an ignored. (several times -- due to the commas) E Mail origin cannot be determined. E Original FROM field was: blablabla This means 1.5j would reject such messages. I definitely need to buy myself a double-thickness asbestos coat. I'm not going to do anything about this anyway. IBM NOTEs should not try to give the impression that they are RFC822 mail -- is it SO difficult to modify NOTE to create valid RFC822 headers? Just quote the whole thing and append '<userid@node>' at the end, eg: From: "Eric Thomas ERIC at FRECP11 CTI Ecole Centrale de Paris blablabla" <ERIC@FRECP11> and make sure to translate " to ' and \ to blank inside the name to avoid problems. That's all. Is it THAT difficult??? Eric