On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:25:37 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:11:45 -0700, Phillip B Oldham wrote: > >> Most clients use ">" which is easy to check for, but I've seen some >> which use "|" and some which *don't* quote at all. Its causing us >> nightmares in parsing responses to system-generated emails. I was >> hoping someone might've seen the problem previously and released some >> code. > > My sympathies. > > I've even seen clients that prefix new (unquoted) text with the quote > character ">".
Well, this is a new one I've never seen before: found on the python-dev mailing list, somebody who (apparently) marks quoted text by inserting a bare quote character on an otherwise empty line after each line of text, similar to this: I've even seen clients that prefix new (unquoted) text with the quote > character ">". > The user in question seems to be using gmail. I suspect a PEBCAK error. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
