For reasons only known to $deity, I decided to put an Xface onto my posts on usenet yesterday, as per the thread title I use $ knode --version Qt: 3.3.4 KDE: 3.4.3 KNode: 0.9.3 on $ uname -mrs Linux 2.6.12-10-386 i686 Kubuntu 5.10 knode was installed via adept. I use knode because it has a plugin for kontact. When I loaded an xface into custom headers it would post the correct xface, until knode/kontact was closed and restarted, then it would post a cut down header Looking at ~/.kde/share/apps/knode/xheader I realised that newline characters had been added (by knode) and only the first 'line' of my xface was being sent. A simple fix is to remove the offending newline characters with a text editor (in ~/.kde/share/apps/knode/xheader) HTH