It must be a reflection of the old Unix "sendmail" convention, in which any line beginning with capital F was prepended with a caret to keep it from being confused with a "From" line (which would indicate the beginning of a new message).
Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil Brooks > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Spambayes] Supurious '>' in bodytext > > > Hi, > > if you have a message that has lines like: > >From now on this must stop. > > The line is rewritten as: > > From now on this must stop. > > That is to say, a '>' and a space is prefixed to any line > that starts with > 'From'. > > This appears to happen when the X-Spambayes-MailId: header is > added to the message. > > This is using sb_imapfilter 1.0.3 on Python 2.4 on an IMAP inbox. > > I think the bug may be buried in the Python email module. > > Neil _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
