Christian Couder [off-list ref] writes:
+
+cat >basic_message <<'EOF'
+subject
+
+body
+EOF
+
+cat >complex_message_body <<'EOF'
+my subject
+
+my body which is long
+and contains some special
+chars like : = ? !
+
+EOF
+
+# We want one trailing space at the end of each line.
+# Let's use sed to make sure that these spaces are not removed
+# by any automatic tool.
+sed -e 's/ Z$/ /' >complex_message_trailers <<-\EOF
+Fixes: Z
+Acked-by: Z
+Reviewed-by: Z
+Signed-off-by: Z
+EOF
Please put things like these inside the first "setup" test.