On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jason Stokes generated:
>Here's a queston: why is "From" always quoted with a > if it appears on
>the first column of an email message? Can't SMTP servers distinguish
>between "From" in the header section and "From" in the body of the
>message?
RFC822 holds the answer. Or is it 821. One of them, anyway.
Short answer: the string "From:" specifies who the mail was sent from,
but the string "From " appears at the top of the mail when stored in the
mbox format. Mailers use this string to identify the start of a
message. Hence "From " always gets quoted when it appears at the start
of a line in the message body.
Same goes for lines containing a single dot, except they get quoted with
another dot. This is only for transferring, iirc, and doesn't appear in
the mbox file.
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