From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 1 16:25:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA08874 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 16:25:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA08868 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 16:25:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA09473; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:06:29 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199612020006.RAA09473@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Inferno for FreeBSD. To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:06:29 -0700 (MST) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199612011308.OAA03585@campa.panke.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Dec 1, 96 02:08:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Ollivier Robert writes: > >No, your MTA doesn't add ">" in from of the "From " line in Chuck's message > >and when Net$crap read it, it assumed it was another message. I received it > >fine. > > Why we use a ">" and not a space or tab? A ">" may destroy > latex documents (see UNIX-HATERS handbook page 79-81). It won't if they are in the message body (See RFC822 line folding and header identification). The first unfolded line not containing a non-white-space containing token followed immediately by a colon (':') demarks the line between text body and text header in an RFC822 message object. If you aren't seeing this, then your mail reader is bogus. If you are running into unencapsulated bod that looks like data... well, your mailbox format is bogus. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.