Sorry about that strange stuff.. (in VGER's lists)
.. but you are talking so much, that I have to figure out how to speed processing up in present system by a factor of 10. (At least.) I got to 70% mark with simple '-pg' profiling, but that is not enough, and to understand deep secrets of the MTA system's CPU-cycle expenditure, I need to do some additional instrumenting.
Something went wrong in that stuff, and it is my turn to fetch a brown paper bag... I realized it happened, and have now stopped the system for a moment. The garbagled messages (most of them, anyway) will be reprocessed without that bug. It will also mean, that you may get some messages (quite a lot, likely) twice. None should be older than 2-3 days.
Oops.. And back to debug.
/Matti Aarnio