diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b026e0e7..dd32f50f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4634,6 +4634,8 @@ v0.33.20        10-Feb-2002
 		If mbfido fails to unzip a incoming mailarchive, a second
 		attempt is done after a sync() and one second delay. This
 		seems to be a kernel flush problem.
+		The same goes for adding .pkt files to the outbound, a second
+		try is done after a sync() to add the .pkt to the archive.
 		In the To field of a created TIC file there is now a comma
 		between the sysop name and fidonet aka.
 		When creating a filefind netmail reply there was no 
diff --git a/mbfido/pack.c b/mbfido/pack.c
index 0ca2024d..14b4130d 100644
--- a/mbfido/pack.c
+++ b/mbfido/pack.c
@@ -243,8 +243,18 @@ int pack_queue(char *name)
 	}
 
 	fsize = file_size(arcfile);
-	if (execute(archiver.marc, arcfile, pktfile, (char *)"/dev/null", (char *)"/dev/null", (char *)"/dev/null") == 0)
+	if (execute(archiver.marc, arcfile, pktfile, (char *)"/dev/null", (char *)"/dev/null", (char *)"/dev/null") == 0) {
 		unlink(pktfile);
+	} else {
+	    sync();
+	    sleep(1);
+	    Syslog('+', "Create ARCmail failed, trying again after sync()"); 
+	    if (execute(archiver.marc, arcfile, pktfile, (char *)"/dev/null", (char *)"/dev/null", (char *)"/dev/null") == 0) {
+		unlink(pktfile);
+	    } else {
+		WriteError("Can't add %s to ARCmail archive", pktfile);
+	    }
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Attach file to .flo