Hi, On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 02:08:14PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > 13 juin 2020 à 09:52 de a...@strugglers.net: > > Looking at the email concerned, it had a line starting with "From" > > quoted with a ">". > > > Indeed! I hope it's not a mistake of mine (usually I proofread my emails > before sending them but who knows...).
It was almost certainly done by Debian's mailing list software. > Why would they do that? ">" is rather usually indicated to insert quotations > isn't it? The mbox mail archive format is a single file containing all messages concatenated together. Separate messages are recognised by a line that starts: >From y...@example.com ... As you can imagine if a message body contained such text it might prematurely end the emails and then the next email would be of an invalid format. As a result a lot of (mostly older) mail software escapes mail body lines that begin with "From" by putting a ">" in front, sometimes even when not in the context of archiving into an mbox. This is most likely what happened here. The use of ">" for this is just a very common convention. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
