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system@coldbox.cojones.com (Bryan Lockwood) writes:

> Anyhow, today I noticed that sometimes a long mail message will also 
> include the text of the next mail message, appended at the end after 
> three smileyface characters. The next message (same text as that 
> appended to previous one) comes out looking normal.

It's a Waffle buglet.  Waffle uses the start position in mailbox.i to
find the beginning of the mail message, but it looks for "^A^A^A^A" at
the beginning of a line to end the message.

> I have a suspiscion that HellDiver is responsible for this:

I don't use Helldiver, so I can't say for sure.  But the buglet will
show up anytime you recieve a mail message that has no newline at the
end of the file.

This is a little more significant when you re-index a mailbox with
MAKEBOX.  MAKEBOX will also fail to see "^A^A^A^A" unless it's at the
beginning of a line, and will index those two adjacent messages as one.
I've written a mail indexer that doesn't depend on "^A^A^A^A" beginning
a line.  It's included in the mkdigest package.
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