🚀 go-pugleaf

Joe Kelsey writes:
 > In <1993May10.100727.25517@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson) writes:
 > >However VM 5.33 spots the missing blank line and decides that the
 > >From_ line isn't the start of a new message. This results in the next
 > >message being glued onto the end of the odd one.
 > 
 > >I don't know whether this is stricly speaking a bug in Smail or a bug
 > >in VM, but IMHO both programs should do their best to fix it up. Ie
 > >Smail should add an extra newline, and VM shouldn't require the blank
 > >line to be present.
 > 
 > VM needs to change its algorithm.  Among other things, SVR4 mail uses
 > a Content-Length: header to specify the mail body-length and DOES NOT
 > put blank lines between messages.

To say that I am unimpressed with System V's past and present
mail handling capabilities would be a marvel of understatement.
Besides the faft that System V does this, is there another reason
VM should bother with this content length header?