On Jun 14, 2005, at 2:17 PM, Danny MacMillan wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:39:10PM -0600, Danny MacMillan wrote:
Hello,
Every time I read an email that has a line in the message body that
starts with the word "From", the line is quoted with a > character.
It is my understanding that this is done necessarily when email is
stored in the mbox format to distinguish lines that start new email
messages from lines that are just part of the message body and just
Happen to start with "From". However, I am not using the mbox
message format.
I am using qmail with Maildir delivery as my MTA. I read my email
using mutt to connect to a dovecot IMAP server, all built from
ports on a FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE machine.
I know this isn't a FreeBSD question per se, but I can't identify
the piece of software that is either a) inserting the > when it
shouldn't or b) not removing the > when it should. I have done
my best to search the net for the answer but when the most
significant search term is the word "From" and the second most
significant is the > character ... well, let's just say I was
not successful and leave it at that. I vaguely remember reading
something about it a long time ago before I myself was plagued
with the problem but I can't for the life of me remember where.
It turns out that when I send the same email both to freebsd-test@
and directly to the account I have subscribed to that list, the
mail delivered via the list has the From line quoting and the other
one doesn't. So it looks like the list is actually sending the
From lines quoted over the wire and my FreeBSD configuration is
okay. Most of the mail I read on this box is list traffic so
I didn't notice.
On this list? I forget what it's called now, but qualcomm had a method
of quoting messages so that email would be indented properly on very
small displays, and it's a format that Mail.app uses in quoting
things...and I don't have the ">", but rather colored lines showing
indenting, so from what I can tell there's a formatting code being put
into the message to assist with proper word wrapping and the MUA is
responsible for properly interpreting the text.
Perhaps it's a combination of factors; I remember some mail agents give
you an option of how to prefix quoted messages (the >, custom
characters, etc.).
Only other thing I could suggest would be a sniff dump of the messages
flying over the wire then retracing them to find out exactly what's
happening, or see if your MUA stores messages in a plain format that
can be viewed on the console and see what exactly is in them (or use a
hex editor on the source to see if there are non-visible characters
embedded in the text for formatting purposes).
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