diff --git a/cake/libs/controller/components/email.php b/cake/libs/controller/components/email.php
index 7fb016d00..30daf1669 100644
--- a/cake/libs/controller/components/email.php
+++ b/cake/libs/controller/components/email.php
@@ -632,7 +632,9 @@ class EmailComponent extends Object{
  * @access private
  */
 	function __strip($value, $message = false) {
-		$search = '%0a|%0d|Content-(?:Type|Transfer-Encoding)\:|charset\=|mime-version\:|multipart/mixed|(?:to|b?cc)\:.*';
+		$search  = '%0a|%0d|Content-(?:Type|Transfer-Encoding)\:';
+		$search .= '|charset\=|mime-version\:|multipart/mixed|(?:[^a-z]to|b?cc)\:.*';
+
 		if ($message !== true) {
 			$search .= '|\r|\n';
 		}
diff --git a/cake/libs/model/datasources/dbo_source.php b/cake/libs/model/datasources/dbo_source.php
index f2aa64ebc..1aa56f73d 100644
--- a/cake/libs/model/datasources/dbo_source.php
+++ b/cake/libs/model/datasources/dbo_source.php
@@ -627,16 +627,22 @@ class DboSource extends DataSource {
 			$queryData['fields'] = $this->fields($model);
 		}
 
-		foreach ($model->__associations as $type) {
-			foreach ($model->{$type} as $assoc => $assocData) {
-				if ($model->recursive > -1) {
-					$linkModel =& $model->{$assoc};
-					$external = isset($assocData['external']);
+		$_associations = $model->__associations;
 
-					if ($model->useDbConfig == $linkModel->useDbConfig) {
-						if (true === $this->generateAssociationQuery($model, $linkModel, $type, $assoc, $assocData, $queryData, $external, $null)) {
-							$linkedModels[] = $type . '/' . $assoc;
-						}
+		if ($model->recursive == -1) {
+			$_associations = array();
+		} else if ($model->recursive == 0) {
+			unset($_associations[2], $_associations[3]);
+		}
+
+		foreach ($_associations as $type) {
+			foreach ($model->{$type} as $assoc => $assocData) {
+				$linkModel =& $model->{$assoc};
+				$external = isset($assocData['external']);
+
+				if ($model->useDbConfig == $linkModel->useDbConfig) {
+					if (true === $this->generateAssociationQuery($model, $linkModel, $type, $assoc, $assocData, $queryData, $external, $null)) {
+						$linkedModels[$type . '/' . $assoc] = true;
 					}
 				}
 			}
@@ -653,12 +659,12 @@ class DboSource extends DataSource {
 
 		$filtered = $this->__filterResults($resultSet, $model);
 
-		if ($model->recursive > 0) {
-			foreach ($model->__associations as $type) {
+		if ($model->recursive > -1) {
+			foreach ($_associations as $type) {
 				foreach ($model->{$type} as $assoc => $assocData) {
 					$linkModel =& $model->{$assoc};
 
-					if (!in_array($type . '/' . $assoc, $linkedModels)) {
+					if (empty($linkedModels[$type . '/' . $assoc])) {
 						if ($model->useDbConfig == $linkModel->useDbConfig) {
 							$db =& $this;
 						} else {
diff --git a/cake/tests/cases/libs/controller/components/email.test.php b/cake/tests/cases/libs/controller/components/email.test.php
index 08f033aac..318ce6b5f 100644
--- a/cake/tests/cases/libs/controller/components/email.test.php
+++ b/cake/tests/cases/libs/controller/components/email.test.php
@@ -104,6 +104,15 @@ class EmailTestComponent extends EmailComponent {
 	function getMessage() {
 		return $this->__message;
 	}
+/**
+ * Convenience method for testing.
+ *
+ * @access public
+ * @return string
+ */
+	function strip($content, $message = false) {
+		return parent::__strip($content, $message);
+	}
 }
 /**
  * EmailTestController class
@@ -499,9 +508,21 @@ TEXTBLOC;
 		$content = "Previous content\n--alt-\nContent-TypeContent-Type:: text/html; charsetcharset==utf-8\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit";
 		$content .= "\n\n<p>My own html content</p>";
 
-		$result = $this->Controller->EmailTest->__strip($content, true);
+		$result = $this->Controller->EmailTest->strip($content, true);
 		$expected = "Previous content\n--alt-\n text/html; utf-8\n 7bit\n\n<p>My own html content</p>";
 		$this->assertEqual($result, $expected);
+
+		$content = '<p>Some HTML content with an <a href="mailto:test@example.com">email link</a>';
+		$result  = $this->Controller->EmailTest->strip($content, true);
+		$expected = $content;
+		$this->assertEqual($result, $expected);
+
+		$content  = '<p>Some HTML content with an ';
+		$content .= '<a href="mailto:test@example.com,test2@example.com">email link</a>';
+		$result  = $this->Controller->EmailTest->strip($content, true);
+		$expected = $content;
+		$this->assertEqual($result, $expected);
+
 	}
 /**
  * testMultibyte method
diff --git a/cake/tests/cases/libs/model/model.test.php b/cake/tests/cases/libs/model/model.test.php
index a4b75847b..c8e84769f 100644
--- a/cake/tests/cases/libs/model/model.test.php
+++ b/cake/tests/cases/libs/model/model.test.php
@@ -12082,6 +12082,15 @@ class ModelTest extends CakeTestCase {
 		$TestModel->User->setDataSource('test2');
 		$TestModel->Comment->setDataSource('test2');
 
+		foreach ($expected as $key => $value) {
+			unset($value['Comment'], $value['Tag']);
+			$expected[$key] = $value;
+		}
+
+		$TestModel->recursive = 0;
+		$result = $TestModel->find('all');
+		$this->assertEqual($result, $expected);
+
 		$result = Set::extract($TestModel->User->find('all'), '{n}.User.id');
 		$this->assertEqual($result, array('1', '2', '3', '4'));
 		$this->assertEqual($TestModel->find('all'), $expected);