Subj : test To : Maurice Kinal From : mark lewis Date : Sat May 19 2018 10:53:58 On 2018 May 18 17:22:32, you wrote to me: ml>> it basically had to work because the only difference, when processing ml>> a raw PKT, between netmail and echomail is the ^AAREA control line ;) MK> Errr ... if I am not mistaken, AREA is not prefixed with 0x01 but I do MK> get the point. yeah, that's one of those flaws in the documentation... some tossers put 0x01 and others don't so you have to watch for both... remember, too, that the documentation comes from "The Conference Mail System" which was only used for a few short years... the documentation has never been updated since... it even talks about the old method that ARCmail used to extract newly arrived messages to the netmail area and then to rescan them again to move them to their proper area... this was all the real sticky stuff back in the day when echomail was introduced... MK> What really worked is that it managed to arrive at it's intended MK> destination. ;-) both arrived here and will be leaving on a routed trip back to you when this one leaves here... )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... I'm a vegetarian, you know, and pork is my favorite vegetable. --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .