So I looked into this more and put this scenario together o…

Twetch ·

So I looked into this more and put this scenario together on how and why the v4 address would show up in older messages. Installing the first release client. Upgrade BitMessage to v0.6.3 which will upgrade your KEYS also to v4 from the...

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Twetch ·

...older addressing scheme.
Which is:
def addBMIfNotPresent(address)

If you were to downgrade to initial release of BitMessage you would have BM- appended to your KEYS still because there wasn't a scenario taken into account to downgrade BitMessage.