On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:03:59PM -0600, Aaron Schrab wrote:
> quote_regexp is ignored for format=flowed messages since RFC 2646, which
> describes that format, mandates that only ">" characters at the very
> beginning of a line are to be considered quote characters. In the
> message you attached, the lines that mutt displayed as starting with a
> ">" actually started with " >", the sending mailer space-stuffed those
> lines to indicate that they shouldn't be treated as quoted.
>
> In other words it's a (common) bug in the program that sent the message,
> mutt is correctly following the format=flowed standard.
Gosh, that's dumb! Well, I guess mutt is doing the right thing.
I guess this could be mentioned in the documentation. Eg, under
quote_regexp, you could add
Note: For text/plain messages with the format=flowed parameter,
quoting is determined according to the rules of that format
(described in RFC 2646), and quote_regexp is ignored.
Thanks,
Andrew
