Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:28:10 EDT, dman writes: >On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: >| I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me. >| >| Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to >| say, this utterly borks things

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:55:11PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me. | | Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to | say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures. It also gives a bad quoting app

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:55:11 EDT, Noah Meyerhans writes: >Or switch to something other than mbox, mh-style. ;-) cheers+SCNR, &rw -- -- "Damn and blast British Telecom!" shouted Dirk, -- the words coming easily from years of practice. -- Douglas Adams pgpHSK2gF3o2m.pgp Description: PGP

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread Robert Waldner
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

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread Alan Shutko
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to > say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures. One variant of the Unix mailbox format uses /^From / to designate the start of messages and thus (destructively and stupidly) escapes lines in

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:50:33PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > 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 act

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me. > > 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 i

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [010927 13:45]: > I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me. > > 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 happen

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
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 charact

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karsten M. Self spake thus: > I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me. > > 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

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
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 characteri

In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me. 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