Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:39:10 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to disable > quoting of lines starting with From in email body? Message-ID: <20050613043910.GA55308@aldebaran.local>
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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. I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on this subject because I can't and it's driving me crazy. Thanks,
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