Currently, flyspell.el's mail-mode-flyspell-verify believes that mail-header-separator is a string that will never appear elsewhere in the buffer. Actually, the mail-header-separator is a string that must appear on a line by itself; "" is a valid choice. The following patch corrects this. It also finds signatures in the opposite way; that is likely to be slightly faster when you have a signature in a large mail buffer. --- /dev/fd/63 2003-01-02 00:18:45.000000000 +0000 +++ flyspell.el 2003-01-02 00:17:36.000000000 +0000 ＠＠ -271,15 +271,21 ＠＠ (put 'message-mode 'flyspell-mode-predicate 'mail-mode-flyspell-verify) (defun mail-mode-flyspell-verify () "This function is used for `flyspell-generic-check-word-p' in Mail mode." - (let ((in-headers (save-excursion - (re-search-forward mail-header-separator nil t))) - (in-signature (save-excursion - (re-search-backward message-signature-separator nil t)))) - (cond (in-headers + (let ((header-end (save-excursion + (goto-char (point-min)) + (re-search-forward (concat "^" mail-header-separator "$") + nil t) + (point))) + (signature-begin (save-excursion + (goto-char (point-max)) + (re-search-backward message-signature-separator + nil t) + (point)))) + (cond ((< (point) header-end) (and (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (looking-at "^Subject:")) (> (point) (match-end 0)))) - (in-signature + ((> (point) signature-begin) nil) (t (save-excursion -- Shields.