On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 00:15 -0700, DK Smith wrote: > > > > > > Is this a feature? :) > > > > Yes :-) > > > > (Historically) lines beginning with From separates mail, thus From's in > > the mailbody needs to be prepended with a '>' to indicate that it is not > > the beginning of a new mail. > > Well, that's certainly helpful. I presume, then, this is mentioned in an > RFC somewhere... ?
I don't know about an RFC, but it's certainly a requirement of the mbox format. RFC's are usually only for intercommunication between computers, this is a requirement of the internal interoperability between programs within a computer. More information is in the Wikipedia entry for mbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox and possibly the qmail mbox man page http://qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/mbox.html Actually, having looked further, RFC 4155 describes the mbox format: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4155 P. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
