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Also known as: body, message body
Everything after the blank line that closes the headers. On text groups it holds the message and any signature; on binary groups it holds one yEnc-encoded segment of a much larger file. During transfer a line containing nothing but a period marks the end of the body, which is why leading periods inside the content are doubled by the sender and undoubled by the receiver.
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