James [on his mailserver] wrote:

> in a mailspool, mails are separated by:
> 
> [blank line]
> >From someone@theiraddress the_date
> 
> right? so what happens if i write this in the middle of my email:
> 
> >From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Mon Jan  1 00:00:00 1970

The above happens. I.e. the delivery agent (procmail, deliver, ...) 
puts a `>' in front of the `From' so that it doesn't get interpreted
as the start of a new message.

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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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