Ok--this gets weirder and weirder. I can access my AOL mail either via my AOL mailbox OR by going to AOL's Webmail. So...I went and took a look at the MyAlerts using Webmail (which I don't normally use) and My Alerts looked perfectly NORMAL when viewing it---but then I checked out the headers and underneath the normal headers was the garbled code I'd seen when I opened the message in my AOL mailbox. See below for the headers and truncated coding--which was much longer than the code I copied below--I didn't copy it all. Judging from the headers below it is that Base 64 encoding that resulted in the garbled code instead of plain text in my inbox version of My Alerts. Joan X-AOL-UID: 3142.745802724 X-AOL-DATE: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 4:52:05 AM Eastern Standard Time Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-db05.mx.aol.com (rly-db05.mail.aol.com [172.19.130.80]) by air-db08.mail.aol.com (v121.4) with ESMTP id MAILINDB081-ac947c7d5ae170; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:52:04 -0500 Received: from anclsmtp02.myfamily.com (anclsmtp02.myfamily.com [66.43.22.191]) by rly-db05.mx.aol.com (v121.4) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINDB057-ac947c7d5ae170; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:51:42 -0500 X-VirtualServer: commbulk, anclsmtp02.myfamily.com, 10.8.10.12 X-Destination-ID: <[email protected]> X-MailingID: 00000::00000::00000::00000::::43039 X-Mailer: StrongMail Enterprise 3.2.0(3.00.196) Received: from smail02.ancestry.com by anclsmtp02.myfamily.com (StrongMail Enterprise 3.2.0(3.00.196)); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:51:42 -0700 X-VirtualServerGroup: commbulk X-SMHeaderMap: mid="X-MailingID" Message-ID: <[email protected]> Received: from Unknown (HELO 10.6.15.10) (10.6.11.251) by smail02.ancestry.com (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:51:42 -0700 X-Sender: <[email protected]> X-Receiver: [email protected] X-campaignid: myfam20080229023000004980 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Reply-To: <[email protected]> From: "Message Boards" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Message Boards: My Alerts Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:51:42 -0000 X-AOL-IP: 66.43.22.191 X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: listenair ; SPF_helo : n X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: listenair ; SPF_822_from : + TXkgQWxlcnRzIA0KDQogDQpCb2FyZDogQm9hcmRzID4gQWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvciBOZXdzDQ pTdWJqZWN0OiBOZXcgTWVzc2FnZSBCb2FyZCBGZWF0dXJlDQpBdXRob3I6IE1CX1N0YWZm DQpEYXRlOiBGZWIgMjggMjAwOCAgNzo0N1BNDQpodHRwOi8vYm9hcmRzLmFuY2VzdHJ5Lm NvbS9hZG1pbm5ld3MvMjAvbWIuYXNoeD9yPWFuDQogDQpCb2FyZDogQm9hcmRzID4gTG9j **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)

Ok--this gets weirder and weirder. I can access my AOL mail either via my AOL mailbox OR by going to AOL's Webmail. Joan ---------------------- Mine came normally as always so it must be an AOL issue. Rick B