on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:55:11PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans (noahm@debian.org) wrote: > 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. Actually, a fix would be for PGP/GPG to standardize the quoting of such messages, *prior* to signing. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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