| From: Malgosia Askanas <maskanas@pair.com> | What do you think could be causing a message I received, whose source looks | like this: As a user of a plain-text Mail User Agent, I'm an innocent bystander in the fights between GUI MUAs. I would have a deep look at the headers of the messages. I bet that there is some misunderstanding between the two ends. For example, your mail had this header: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Lots of mail is still encoded in other charsets. For example Windows-12* (* means some digits that I don't remember). Confusion can lead to lots of funny results. You could look at the raw message but that has a bit of a learning curve. I bet those A characters are really part of some magic character sequence, starting with a byte >= 128 or < 32.