Hi, 13 juin 2020 à 14:21 de a...@strugglers.net:
> The mbox mail archive format is a single file containing all > messages concatenated together. Separate messages are recognised by > a line that starts: > > >From > y...@example.com> ... > > As you can imagine if a message body contained such text it might > prematurely end the emails and then the next email would be of an > invalid format. > > As a result a lot of (mostly older) mail software escapes mail body > lines that begin with "From" by putting a ">" in front, sometimes > even when not in the context of archiving into an mbox. This is most > likely what happened here. The use of ">" for this is just a very > common convention. > Thanks, I was not aware of this. However, this extra ">" should have been deleted upon viewing the email, no? If I'm right, escaping "From" with a leading ">" is just for mailing software internals (mbox), the reverse process is applied when displaying the final message... 13 juin 2020 à 15:12 de ghesk...@shentel.net: > On Saturday 13 June 2020 08:24:49 Andy Smith wrote: > >> Amusingly I didn't think to point out that by sending a line that >> starts with that, Debian's list software will quote it! I should >> probably have indented it with whitespace. Anyway, I didn't type the >> ">" there; Debian's list software inserted it. >> > It is not present when your msg arrives here. > I confirm. Maybe it's your email client that did that? l0f4r0
