ml> what message base format(s) are you using? are all of them having
 ml> this problem or only one format or even only one base?? 

 TL> I use JAM for echomail and msg for netmail....and it's only the
 TL> netmail that seems to be affected.

humm... i dunno... i was thinking that if it were jam related, it might be
a "positional" thing... the jam read pointers are handled two
different ways that are incompatible with each other... but since you are
using MSG (aka SDM==StarDotMsg), that's not the problem...

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