Re[2]: ">From" in a message

2000-08-11 Thread Jamie Dainton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Peter, Thursday, August 10, 2000, 23:43:48, you wrote: PS> . I remember PS> having seen posts from Jamie D. with an invalid signature (JD has PS> "From Jamie..." in his signature). This doesn't happen with PGP, PS> because PGP escapes lines be

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hi Marck, On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:51:49 +0100GMT (11/08/2000, 07:51 +0800GMT), Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: JF>> Then why doesn't my server put the same ">" in front of the word JF>> "From" when I send that same message to myself, using Eudora? MDP> It doe, but Eudora understands that it has do

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Joe, On 10 August 2000 at 17:17:47 GMT -0500 (which was 23:17 where I live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points on the subject of "">From" in a message": JF> Then why doesn't my server put the same &qu

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Peter Steiner
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:49:48 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: KP> Not sure about the latter. How would you tell the difference between a KP> line that was escaped vs. one that was originally in that form before KP> sending? The MUA could make an educated guess based on context, I KP> suppose, but is

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Peter Steiner
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:57:32 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: KP> I believe that comes from sendmail, and is due to the nature of Unix KP> mailboxes and spool files. The sequence "From" is used KP> to denote the beginning of a message. If this sequence occurs in the KP> middle of a message, sendmail

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 3:17:47 PM, Joe wrote: > Something/someone put it there, and it wasn't Leif. You have been told what it is. > Then why doesn't my server put the same ">" in front of the word "From" > when I send that same message to m

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 2:49:48 PM, Kenneth wrote: > Not sure about the latter. How would you tell the difference between a > line that was escaped vs. one that was originally in that form before > sending? The MUA could make an educated guess base

Re[2]: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Joe Finocchiaro
Thursday, August 10, 2000, 3:58:11 PM, Marck D. Pearlstone, wrote: [...] MDP> On 10 August 2000 at 15:27:30 GMT -0500 (which was 21:27 where I MDP> live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points on the subject of "">>From" in a message": KP>>> I

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:29:43 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >It isn't sendmail, it is the delivery agent and only on mbox format. The >POP server that can read mbox format should also know how to unescape a From >like that. Not sure about the latter. How would you tell the difference between a li

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 1:58:11 PM, Marck wrote: > No. Only those of us who have a sendmail server between the list > server (which is MDaemon running on a WinNT/2K PC) and the end user > POP server. It isn't sendmail, it is the deliv

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Joe, On 10 August 2000 at 15:27:30 GMT -0500 (which was 21:27 where I live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points on the subject of "">From" in a message": KP>> I believe that comes from sendmail, and is d

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:20:42 +0200, Oliver Sturm wrote: >Whoa. You mean sendmail is actually modifying the _content_ of my >message? Correct. Your MDA (eg. procmail) must, because of the nature of the Unix mailbox format. If you need to send stuff pristine, send it as an attachment. (After

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Joe Finocchiaro
Thursday, August 10, 2000, 2:57:32 PM, Kenneth Porter, wrote: [...] >>>From now on, >> >>Using the above snippet as as an example, I'd like to ask if anyone >>knows why this "problem" appears to happen to me so frequently? >> >>Does it happen to everyone else? Please check that message you recen

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Oliver Sturm
Hi Kenneth Porter, On Thursday, August 10, 2000 at 9:57:32 PM you wrote: > I believe that comes from sendmail, and is due to the nature of Unix > mailboxes and spool files. The sequence "From" is used > to denote the beginning of a message. If this sequence occurs in the > middle of a message,

Re: ">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Mark Aston
Hi Kenneth, Thursday, August 10, 2000, 8:57:32 PM, you wrote: KP> I believe that comes from sendmail, and is due to the nature of Unix KP> mailboxes and spool files. The sequence "From" is used KP> to denote the beginning of a message. If this sequence occurs in the KP> middle of a message, send

">From" in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:27:31 -0500, Joe Finocchiaro wrote: >Thursday, August 10, 2000, 8:19:02 AM, Leif Gregory, wrote: > >>From now on, > >Using the above snippet as as an example, I'd like to ask if anyone >knows why this "problem" appears to happen to me so frequently? > >Does it happen to eve