From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 28 11:56:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2888437B416 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:56:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a236.otenet.gr [212.205.215.236]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fASJuFY02290; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:56:16 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fASBi8022515; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:44:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:44:07 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Christopher Farley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Stupid Virus going arround. Message-ID: <20011128114407.GA22466@hades.hell.gr> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011128022805.A2150@northernbrewer.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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