Hi frals thank you for developing such a good application:-) I'd like to report a issue with decoding headers including Japanese. fmms can't downlad msg when From header contains Japanese characters encoded with utf8. /tmp/fmms.log is af following... --- (orig) self.conn.text_factory = sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode (fixed) self.conn.text_factory = str ---- Could you consider merging this fix? regards. kenya888