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[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 08:24:30AM +0000, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
> >I'm getting a stray > directly before lines begining with 
> >From in the text body of emails I receive.  Presuamably this is a hack to
> >help some program tell where emails begin in mbox mail files.  Still, it's
> >breaking my PGP signatures.  I've tried to simulate one here.  At time
> >of sending, the second linehas no > character in it at all.
> 
> formail(1) says:
> 
> 	Any header lines immediately following the leading `From ' line
> 	that start with `>From ' are considered to be a continuation
> 	of the `From ' line. If instructed to rename the `From ' line,
> 	formail will change each leading `>' into a space, thereby
> 	transforming those lines into normal RFC822 continuations.
> 
> I guess your mail is going through something that escapes 'From ' lines
> in the above manner, but incorrectly does it for the body of the message,
> not just the header.

No this is a different issue. As you correctly say the quote above is for
headers only, but it is 'traditional' for prepend the '>' to lines starting
with 'From ' in mail boxes as lines starting 'From ' are used to indicate
the start of a new mail message. There is no way round that other than
using a different mail box format (which is why I use MMDF format).

-- 
Alain Williams

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