This is a function of the receiving MTA. mbox format inserts a line at the beginning of each email in the form of:
>From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <date> This serves as a message delimiter inside the flat text file format of mbox. Your POP3 mail server needs these lines. Anyway, any time another line within the headers or message body BEGINS with "From xxx..." it will be prepended with a single ">" to preserve the validity of the message delimiters. This is easy to test. telnet to your mail server on port 25 and manually deposit an email that has the following lines: this is a test From: hello From >From hello see which will be prepended This is an entirely distinct issue from the 'quoting' of previous message bodies (as in below) -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danny MacMillan > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:16 PM > To: Bart Silverstrim > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Solved] How to disable > quoting of lines starting with > From in email body? > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:28:45PM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > > > On Jun 14, 2005, at 2:17 PM, Danny MacMillan wrote: > > > > >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 .... snip ..... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
