you have another problem - in that all these very specific strings
that you are posting could very well be being mangled in someway
because of the mail transport. in fact I doubt it comes thru in
way that makes it testable at all.

it doesn't help that googling for 'dcomzlib' brings up your own posts
as the first results. not very helpful.

interesting problem - sorry I can't help

Graham Anderson wrote:
>  I am having problems decompressing a zlib'd string located in a file.
>  
>  In the file headers, the compression says that it is  zlib.
>  But, when I  'gzinflate' the string, I get the error: gzinflate():  data 
>  error in <b
>  Is the below NOT a zlib or some strange variant ?
>  
>  anyone know ?
>  g
>  
>  <?php
>  $hex="C0636D7664000003DE789C95533B4E0331109D2408C44FA200125084568212D153 
>  2040A2A02012120D05142636BB26B677659B20B8000D05D7E00674882B70000EC1018019 
>  67974D365060E569C76F3CEF4D66BD008D779DA67D0050BA9F707CC2CBFDE43301A07E1A 
>  5003FA956B6433BEDFFB89A87E6CD5011AF3DEB21EC667BE173C1BA567A156D67E7DFEC3 
>  772207C086E0DEE1B32D94F36545AE1B6AEB4673C9308834FFE3BF031C227613AE2CE575 
>  A2ACCBAC6759A6824AADF6BA769259E945B46FA4665EA626EA08948D0E99E14A60597D4A 
>  4B734936B10E36AD188941CF5F61E5ED6D17361C6D98928E6C1606366FAD7DDCA08B92CC 
>  4507CC0F19C0061F18B4B9159743D39923913C7E74FE827ADE74DEF1A133EDBF270A2DE7 
>  C30C8B5C31BF366A7447F91F2C62EE6E909A7928B96E5A79071FDD948B8ADFBB13CCE435 
>  D339B78A10BFF406B04C2F642443510BD1AB9CA77809910CF3057955155FEAE1D5A99264 
>  A6C6DAA07A5915A50EE2CA51BA93CD6BEEE9B6CD1AA605B73A4F9DE7F4FA93BBB1D004E8 
>  302EA21BE993E848F6C58967B1888E2DCD6F2553D7B14EFB5290C40E6A6CE9F0F1CE75FD 
>  6D665243839ACE14BB0DCADFAFDD8C760000003C";
>  
>  // Convert the hex to a string
>  $string = pack("H*", $hex);
>  
>  //echo it
>  echo "the compressed string is:". "\r\n";
>  echo $string;
>  
>  
>  //decompress the string
>  $uncompressed =gzinflate($string);
>  echo "the uncompressed string is: ".$uncompressed;
>  
>  ?>
>  
>  The Output SHOULD look something like this:
>  8
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>  
>  
>  The compressed output is:
>  
>  the compressed string is:
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>  w"?????-??eE??Fs?0?4??"v?,?u??ˬgY??J???v?Y?E?o?f^?&????J`Y}JKsI6?6??A? 
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