When using flyspell-mode with mail-mode or message-mode, the email header is ignored for spellchecking.

However, this incorrectly assumes that any such buffer will always begin with a header.  I use message-mode to edit the email body only, and I find that flyspell ignores the whole first paragraph of such a buffer.

Attached is a patch that causes flyspell to only try to skip over the header if the message really does begin with a header.

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Peter Oliver