Help diagnosing problem

[Boz Crowther]

I've got a DOS command-line mailer in use throughout my network.  I set up qmail to run as an smtp relay for the email being produced from this mailer, qmail-smtpd was barfing with status 256 whenever it received an email.  After a little research/help from the list I included fixcrio in my qmail-smtpd command line, and that partly fixed the problem.   This mailer can either parse header information from a text file, using a command line option, or you can use command line options to set all of the header information.  Here's the rub: when I parse the information from a text file, all is well; when I use the command line options, all the recipient gets is a completely empty email, no From:, no Subject:, etc.   Can anyone help me with a little direction on diagnosing exactly what's going on here, and how to resolve it?  I appreciate any help you can provide.