Hello Avenarius,
On Friday, August 03, 2001 at 7:24:01 AM you wrote (at least in part):
A> So, Yahoo and Kiwwi passed this test, while GMX, Host, and the mail
A> server I actually pay for failed it.
I'm sorry to tell you: they don't failed :-)
They did something that you (and maybe many others) don't like and don't
really understand, but what they did was something to prevent you from getting
splitted messages.
It's not really nice, even because it destroys a PGP-Signature, but it's
sometimes necessary :-(
What the final mail server does is storing the message in a MBOX.
The mbox-format is well documented and it tells:
A new mail in the mbox-file begins with a line
'^From email@domain Date_in_format_DOW_MONTH_DOM_TIME_YEAR$'
where '^' is a 'begin of line' and '$' is the 'end of line' in RegExp-Signs.
As an e-mail can be only a name, not including the '@' the mailservers that
'failed' in your opinion added the quotation mark in front of the 'From' to
prevent from reading the mbox-file and recognize two mails instead of one.
Mailservers that do not insert that '>' store mails in a different format than
mbox, maybe 'Maildir' or even Database and do know where a new mail starts
form the kind of data storing, in other word: new dataset equals new mail, the
there's no space for a mistake at the 'From' line.
That's _one_ of the reasons why I prefer Maildir-format over MBOX and setup
all mailservers I'm responsible for with Maildir (as qmail supports it), but
nevertheless as this is something from _very_ old *nix times the insert of a
quotation sign is not a failure, as annyoing it is.
To Dierk: you wrote:
DH> Not confirmed. I do have it sometimes, but not always. So it cannot be
DH> GMX.
If GMX is the last mailserver in every mail you inspected, the only reason why
it sometimes was there and other tiems not could be: they're using different
storage types.
AFAIK GMX has more than one mail server and the only thing I can imagine of is
several of them use MBOX (so you have the '>') and others don't so there's no
need of inserting it.
As all servers are hidden behind a load balancer one can not know or recall
which server _exactly_ stored the mail, so we cannot examine this finally, but
that's the only way I can try to explain why it does happen to some mails but
not all, if _all_ of them are finally delivered to GMX.
Ciao Pit
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