* Steffen Evers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 19:21, Prahlad Vaidyanathan wrote: > > Why do these lines starting with ">From" keep turning up in the body. > > All lines beginning with the word "From" seem to end up like this. Some > > MTA/MDA along the way seems to be doing this. It isn't my procmail (at > > least nothing I've defined), so what does this ? > > > > More importantly, how do I get rid of it ? It affects readability quite > > a bit. Currently, I just use a display filter to get rid of it, but I'm > > sure there is a better way. > > It IS caused by procmail in combination with your MTA normally. It is > the default behavior for procmail to do this, so you do not need to set > this explicitly. Have a look at this: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=117923 >
Wrong. It's actually part of one of the internet RFC's. MUTT is not the only client that does this. All E-mail programs place a "quoted" symbol '>' for most people by the word From if it's the first word in a paragraph. I've seen this at length with many program and tests I've been part of (Outlook and Entourage on the Mac for example). I forget the RFC offhand, I do have it documented somewhere at home, I just can't get to it right now. -- Carl B. Constantine University of Victoria Programmer Analyst http://www.uvic.ca UNIX System Administrator Victoria, BC, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED]
