On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:05:37AM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > Wrong. It's actually part of one of the internet RFC's. MUTT is not the > only client that does this. All E-mail programs place a "quoted" symbol > '>' for most people by the word From if it's the first word in a > paragraph.
Going a bit off topic: Unfortunately, the '>' seems to be placed inconsistently. For example, if I send a message with the following line using pine: >From asdf then the copy of the message saved in the sent-mail mbox does NOT have a '>' before the "From". But the exim MTA on the other end that receives the message will write it to the recipient's mbox as ">From asdf". Because of this inconsistency, I think it's impossible to determine for certain whether the message was sent with '>' in the first place (which could happen if someone quoted a message without putting a space after the '>', for example). It seems to work in most cases to s/^>From/From/g, though.
