Lan Barnes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:51:31PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > Lan Barnes wrote: > > > > > > >From me the reply was. > > > > *grr* I dislike all the From_ quoting. It seems something along the > > pipeline is (erroneously) assuming that we are all storing email in an > > mbox format. > > > > >From the looks of it, I would say it is the mailman software. Copious > > Bcc:'s to verify my claim. > > Don't get too snippy ... my mail server is handled by a Very Wonderful > Person who reads this list ;-)
I'm getting snippy at *MailMan*, the mailing list software that takes it upon itself to modify the text of mail bodies WITH ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON. This is akin to Reply-To: munging, except for the whole ``breaking digital signatures'' (however, GPG and GnuPG come prepared for that) and breaking of attachments. Let the MDA handle From_ quoting, as the MDA is the only thing that knows if it needs to be munged at all. Look! I made a table!! Service From_ quoting --------------- ------------- gmail no qmail no sparkplug no UCSD Groupwise no kplug-list YES There is something about the way kplug-list mail is handled that is causing the From_ to be quoted. Uncessarly, as I have four examples where it is not required at all. the qmail, sparkplug, and kplug-list all had the same final destination, how it got there varied: qmail came straight to my system sparkplug came to my system, via sparkplug (the same host that services the list mail) kplug-list went through spakplug, mailman, then my system here. This is how I am able to determine that it is MailMan that is the culprit. I don't know why t is doing it, but I do know that I do not like it. > > -john Recycled .sigs! -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
