Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/23/06 10:58

Jim Devenish (internet.shopping@foobox.com) writes:
> There it is again. I can't win on this one. Please disregard the > in
> front of From

The reason this happens is because of the mbox format used by old
Unix mailers. This format is also used by some newsreaders for archives
I believe. In this format, a new message always starts with "From ".
Since a preceding message always ends with two or three newlines,
there is some safety precaution in the format, but not waterproof.

For this reason, Unix mailers that uses this format adds a > before
"From" when it appears first on a line. I've noticed that Google news,
that I see that you are using, also does this to be, I guess, a good
net citizen.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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