AL> How did you specify the notify address in your control file?  2D or 3D?

   Yeup, that's it. With 3D it works as expected:

d 14-Nov-2014 01:37:36 makenl[4000] OpenMSGFile entered
d 14-Nov-2014 01:37:36 makenl[4000] OpenMSGFile: 2:203/0 filename=(null)
d 14-Nov-2014 01:37:36 makenl[4000] SearchMaxMSG('S:\FD\netmail')

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