I filed a bugzilla report on the problem I reported on this mailing list on Fri Feb 3
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4918
There is a fix for that available. Here is an rcsdiff -w UserMailer.php for the suggested fix (base64 encoded so the mailinglist does not wrap/corrupt it)
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