On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 11:06:07PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > and also to mention that RFC 3676 (text format=flowed) mistakenly > assumes ">" is the only quote character.
No it doesn't. It *defines* ">" as the only quote character, when using this format. If you are using format=flowed then you must quote with ">". If not then you can quote with anything you like (although naturally if you use something other than ">" then you have chosen unwisely). If you are generating format=flowed and quoting a received mail that wasn't in this format then you can either quote them verbatim (with ">" characters) and let the reader work it out, or try to convert their text to format=flowed (the latter might be frowned upon by pedants; the former by format purists). Ian Collier
