Jürgen Schmitz
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:28:43 -0700
---Reply to mail from David Pilgram about XCmail: A minor Bug? > Hello, > > I've noticed a minor bug. I do not know yet when it occurs. > > I write an email, and I send it. > > When I view it in my outbox, sometimes one of the paragraphs has a ">" > character added before the first word. > > It is, of course, minor, but odd. It does not seem to be linked to having > any attachments, nor does it appear to be connected to the size of the > email. I have not quoted anything in the email, or inserted any text or > anything. The latest occurance, today, was just a straight plain text > typed in at a keyboard. > > Also, it's happened too often, and always before the first word of a > paragraph, to make me think it's a typo. > > I presume you were aware of some spam using the mailing list to send > itself recently. > Did those paragraphs start with "From" ? Because in this case a ">" is added (required by sendmail). If not this code may have a problem when comparing the text and checking for a "From". Jürgen