CompuServe Messages

Karl, You're not the only one with this problem. It's been happening to me for several weeks now. (I thought I was getting garbage characters in the bodies of my messages, so I didn't worry about it.) Today I downloaded 11 Internet EasyPlex messages, and View rejected 10 of them. After I read your message here, I checked the headers of my 'Plexes, and I think you're right about the cause. The From: line should have an ">INTERNET:" string in it; if the ">" is missing, View rejects the messages. I *think* that the problem stems from CIS' use of the ">" character. The angle brackets have a rather specific use in Internet e-mail headers. As I recall the RFCs, a DNS address must one of the following (there may be one or two more): (User's Real Name or other comment) user@site.domain user@site.domain (User's Real Name or other commment) User's Real Name <user@site.domain> Note that the last form contains the angle brackets. I suspect that CIS' use of the ">" in their DNS addressing is causing trouble. View! could probably be a bit more forgiving about the format of the From: line. I don't think it's fundamentally a View! problem, though. It looks more like a design error on CompuServe's part. –dds Whappeta-whappeta-Whap! (dales@cryo.rain.com)