On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:05, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > * Steffen Evers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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. Not wrong - correct. However, it is an intended behavior that is even documented in procmail manpages (as described on the given webpage). I have done some testing to find this out as it results in a messed up message in combination with the bounce command. So, if you want to avoid it see the link above. I got rid of it by doing that. I am using a combination of exim, fetchmail, mutt and procmail. Therefore I had to reconfigure the invocation of procmail by exim. This issue should be fixed in Debian sid now, as my bugreport has been closed.
Bye, Steffen
