On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:50:33 CDT, Dave Sherohman writes: >On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: >> Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to >> say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures. >> >> I have no idea where this is happening (I run exim, fetchmail and mutt), >> or even if it's characteristic of my system, my ISP >> (Earthlink/Mindspring), or other mail intermediaries. > >I can't tell you who is doing it, but I can tell you why... In mbox >format, the start of a new message is traditionally recognized by the >presence of a line beginning with the sequence "From ". One >technique which has been used to avoid problems with messages which >contain lines in their bodies which begin with those five characters >is to put the > in front of it.
formail springs to mind...(my gpg-signed mails top karsten were/are affected :( ). >I suspect that this is probably being done by "helpful" software on >some intermediary machine, most likely either the sender's or your >ISP's, as I use exim and mutt and have used fetchmail in the past, >but don't recall ever actually seeing this happen. formail. bad. IME. YMMV. cheers, &rw -- -- `apt-get update; apt-get install life/stable` ----
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