From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 14 18:18:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD8916A41F for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:18:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE68543D55 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:18:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from pd5mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.183]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0II300E7V6SWCD70@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:17:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd5mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0II300CJN6SWPFD0@pd5mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:17:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from aldebaran.local (S01060010a72631f9.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.46.209]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with SMTP id <0II30000M6SW6A@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:17:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 652 invoked by uid 1001); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:17:20 +0000 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:17:19 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan In-reply-to: <20050613043910.GA55308@aldebaran.local> To: Danny MacMillan Message-id: <20050614181719.GC510@aldebaran.local> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline References: <20050613043910.GA55308@aldebaran.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [Solved] How to disable > quoting of lines starting with From in email body? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:18:21 -0000 On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:39:10PM -0600, Danny MacMillan wrote: > Hello, > > Every time I read an email that has a line in the message body that > starts with the word "From", the line is quoted with a > character. > > It is my understanding that this is done necessarily when email is > stored in the mbox format to distinguish lines that start new email > messages from lines that are just part of the message body and just > Happen to start with "From". However, I am not using the mbox > message format. > > I am using qmail with Maildir delivery as my MTA. I read my email > using mutt to connect to a dovecot IMAP server, all built from > ports on a FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE machine. > > I know this isn't a FreeBSD question per se, but I can't identify > the piece of software that is either a) inserting the > when it > shouldn't or b) not removing the > when it should. I have done > my best to search the net for the answer but when the most > significant search term is the word "From" and the second most > significant is the > character ... well, let's just say I was > not successful and leave it at that. I vaguely remember reading > something about it a long time ago before I myself was plagued > with the problem but I can't for the life of me remember where. It turns out that when I send the same email both to freebsd-test@ and directly to the account I have subscribed to that list, the mail delivered via the list has the From line quoting and the other one doesn't. So it looks like the list is actually sending the >From lines quoted over the wire and my FreeBSD configuration is okay. Most of the mail I read on this box is list traffic so I didn't notice. -- Danny MacMillan