On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to > say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures. > > I have no idea where this is happening (I run exim, fetchmail and mutt), > or even if it's characteristic of my system, my ISP > (Earthlink/Mindspring), or other mail intermediaries. It has to happen. "From" at the beginning of a line has special meaning mbox mailbox format. Mail servers will insert the '>' because they need to do something to escape that word. I suppose it would be more aesthetically pleasing to replace it with a ' ', but that would still break things like PGP. So, the fix is to change the mbox spec and fix all the mail software in the world to use your new format. There are, of course, numerous possible workarounds. Basically they all come down to one thing: don't use "From" at the beginning of a line. Or switch to something other than mbox, which may obviate the need to escape "From". Then again, that doesn't necessarily mean that the software won't still escape it. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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