This isn't a bug, it is the right way to do things, according to some RFC that I forget the number of (but I can find it, if you want me to).
The reason being, any line beginning with 'From' is the delimiter for a new message. Without the quotation mark, the mail transport system would truncate the message at the start of this line. -- Barry On 29/09/2010 15:03, "Roger S. Cohen" <[email protected]> wrote: >Jim Robertson <[email protected]> wrote on 9/29/10 8:59 AM: > >>> From your comments about list formatting, font sizes, tabs, etc., I'm >> assuming this means that Outlook Mac isn't using the Word text rendering >> engine the way Windows Office does for messages containing complex >> formatting. > > >There is a bug in Entourage 2008, which has been there all the way back to >Claris Emailer v.1. > >If you quote some text in a plain text email, then the quoted text >naturally >is naturally preceded by a right ">" sign. > >Here's the bug. If the beginning of a paragraph has a beginning sentence >starts with the first word "From", Entourage thinks that line should be >quoted. > >Take, for example, the quoted text from Jim Robertson's message, shown at >the top of this message. Jim wrote the following (no * marks): > >* From your comments about list formatting, font.... > >But Entourage 2008 displays it as: > >* > From your comments about list formatting, font... > > >So, when actually reply-quoting it, the text shows up as it appears on the >top line of this message: > >* >> From your comments about list formatting, font... > > >I learned a long time ago that when I write a message in Claris Emailer >v.1 >all the way up to Entourage 2008, if I want to start a paragraph with a >sentence with the first word "From", I write: > >This from.... >Or > This from (leading space before "from" >Or >Based on your comments about list formatting, font... > >.... >>From what I can tell >it's a bug. > > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Roger S. Cohen >President >Cohen International >3 Main Street, Suite 602 >Nyack, NY 10960 USA > >[email protected] >http://www.rogercohen.com > >Land: +1 (845) 358-8936 >Cell: +1 (845) 304-3998 > > >-- >YouTalk mailing list >List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html >List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] >To unsubscribe: >mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe -- YouTalk mailing list List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
