I have a bad cold... so I'm spending time learning and trying out different code options for things that will have to change in spaces to make it more robust. One thing I have to grok is the IMAP spec (RFC 1730) and the other encodings, such as Base64 and Quoted-Printable, which are described in RFC 2045. I'd much rather not get too much into this, but the javax.mail.* parsers tend to fail in extreme cases and it gets difficult if not impossible to fix a problem. Oh well...