Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:44:07 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Stupid Virus going arround. Message-ID: <20011128114407.GA22466@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20011128022805.A2150@northernbrewer.com> References: <15363.48584.202273.470447@guru.mired.org> <022901c17761$b431a510$fd6e34c6@mlevy> <15363.49761.411744.990323@guru.mired.org> <59350765.20011127112338@mindspring.com> <20011127191156.GD452@nabokov.afc.vw.com> <02b101c1776b$e72b38a0$fd6e34c6@mlevy> <15364.23207.328491.247555@guru.mired.org> <20011128070420.GB39649@nabokov.afc.vw.com> <20011128072412.GA20379@keyslapper.org> <20011128022805.A2150@northernbrewer.com>
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On 2001-11-28 02:28:08, Christopher Farley wrote: > Louis LeBlanc (leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org) wrote: > > > Mutt allows you to use emacs, vi, or vim as your composer/viewer, in > > addition to the no frills (even compared to vi) builtin composer. You > > can even configure it to color certain text to indicate headers, > > quotes, addresses, etc., just by tweaking a mail.vim config. > > While we're on the subject of editor/mail user agent interactions: > What is it that causes all lines in the message body beginning with the > word 'From' to be indented with a '>'?? The standard Unix mailbox format `knows' that a new message has started when it finds a line beginning with "From ". For instance, a mailbox with two messages woule have something like: From address ... [ The rest of the header ] Body of message #1. From address2 ... [ The rest of header2 ] Body of message #2. Since mail readers will think that a new message begins if a line starts with "From ", it is escaped with a leading ">" to avoid messing mailboxes. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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