Yes, as Eric explained the "bogus" message had a line of 75 "="s (equal signs) followed by a line starting with "Date: 11-19-19..." which the DATABASE indexing function took to be a new message. However, the daily digest and index output properly took the mail to be one item so the numbers no longer agreed. Since the numbers printed with the "daily" index are generated by subtracting the number of items in that index from the total in DBINDEX (+1) to get the starting point, the starting point is one too large in the listing (until the item in error is passed, then they agree). For now I guess we can just warn people not to use lines of "="s in their postings! Marty