On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:45:21PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The Fool said: > > > > > The real question is what kind of filtering software inserted ">" > > > before 'From', after my sending and before my recieving. > > > > As far as I know, all mail transfer agents do that so that computers > > using Unix mailboxes don't get confused and think that a leading "From" > > is a new email. > > If all unixices have such bad parsing that they can't tell the difference > between message headers and message bodies, it's no wonder very few > outside the high end corporate world use them.
It is more complicated than that. The BSD mbox format has been around for (I think) around 20 years. I imagine the originator had no idea how widespread it would become, and just used a simple kludge for the message delimiter. But now, a lot of programs expect certain behavior, so changing is difficult. Here are some more details: http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/content-length.html -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
