edit to misiak's edit Yes that is the layout code of the message. And should not be in the message text itself. You are lucky that the text of message (or was it subject?) seems to be in front of smil info. Other way round message would have been unreadable possibly. And I assume that some length has not been read correct or text was not-Null terminated (which is only normal at the end) or some special characters (unicode?) screwed it up. But as you say only a few are borked. And no I am sure my fix has nothing to do with it.