Hello, In the attachment is a message which is displayed in Gnus with some junk text at the beginning. It appears that the problem is in the header X-Ham-Report. Removing this header in the incoming email fixes the problem for me (it does not appear in further messages). This is a header containing technical information and some unencoded UTF-8 characters (U+FFFD to be precise). Here it is with all U+FFFD characters replaced by `?'. ~~~~~~~~~~~ X-Ham-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "server2.ultrahost.us", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: ???????????. > ?? ???? ??????? ??????????? ?? ????????? ? ?????????? ??????? RHVoice? ?????? ??? ? ?????????. ???????? ??? ??????????? ??? ??????? ?????? ??????. ???? ?????????? ?????? ??????????? ?? 5 ??????, ?? ???????? ?????????? ???????? ?????? ?????? ?????. [...] Content analysis details: (-0.4 points, 8.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [94.100.176.154 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (georgiexxx-146[at]mail.ru) 0.1 FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT Envelope-from freemail username ends in digit (georgiexxx-146[at]mail.ru) -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 1.4 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list ~~~~~~~~~~~ I also have mangled the sender address a bit in order to protect it from spamming. But this shouldn't make any difference. For me it looks like Gnus misdetects the start of message body due to this header. D. Paduchikh In GNU Emacs 24.0.90.1 (i386-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.7) of 2011-10-20 on ait configured using `configure '--prefix=/opt/emacs' '--program-suffix=-24'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: C value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: C value of $LANG: ru_RU.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t