On Oct 16, 19:19, Olminkhof wrote: Hmm... I've had this problem from time to time with Pine (a well-known but in some respects very iffy UNIX mailer) and with other mail software based on similar library code (elm, and a new GUI one whose name escapes me). The author of the library made some unwarranted assumptions about what exactly are the rules that govern separation of messages in a mailbox, and the allowed formated for the date, with the result that messages sometimes get stuck together. The author forgot the adage "be forgiving in what you accept and strict in what you transmit". It's my pet hate at the moment :-) Perhaps yuo have a similar problem, either on your local system or your ISP's? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York