>>>>> "Prahlad" == Prahlad Vaidyanathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Prahlad> Hi, Why do these lines starting with ">From" keep turning
Prahlad> up in the body. All lines beginning with the word "From"
Prahlad> seem to end up like this. Some MTA/MDA along the way seems
Prahlad> to be doing this. It isn't my procmail (at least nothing
Prahlad> I've defined), so what does this ?
It's your MTA. 'From ' is used as the separator for mailboxes in the
BSD mbox format. For that reason, if a line beginning with 'From' was
left untouched, it would be seen as the start of a new message.
See the following links:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html
http://cr.yp.to/immhf.html
for some more information on this.
HTH,
- Chris.
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