Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scott Gifford wrote: >> Slava Bizyayev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] >>>Strangely... There is no '>' in my original. Neither I find in >>>attachment that I sent... >> That's a standard mangling required by the Unix mbox format; new >> messages are signaled by a line beginning with "From ", so any lines >> that really do begin with "From " have to be escaped, usually by a > >> character. It's best to just try to pretend you don't notice. :) > > It doesn't make sense for attachments though. The Unix mbox format was invented before MIME, and applies to anything in a mailbox. Your POD file was attached as text/plain, so didn't have any encoding that would have stopped a literal "From " at the beginning of the line. I'm not arguing that it's a good format, just explaining how it works. > And an unescaped > in pod is an error. Yup. I'm just explaining why the > probably showed up. ----ScottG.
