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Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'



On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:50:33PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> I suspect that this is probably being done by "helpful" software on
> some intermediary machine, most likely either the sender's or your
> ISP's, as I use exim and mutt and have used fetchmail in the past,
> but don't recall ever actually seeing this happen.

Exim does this by default. I can, for example, send a message to myself over the
localhost and the From will get escaped. This is, anyway, standardized behavior.

-- 
John Patton                      patton66@home.com

"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein



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