On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:33:41 -0500 "Coe, Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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). It's actually not connected with the MTA in use, but is necessary if the mail is ever stored in "mbox" format instead of "mdir" or a proprietary encoding such as pst. The MTA I use, Postfix, uses mbox for its incoming storage, although my mailreader, Sylpheed, uses mdir once it's received the mail. This means that any receiving MTA which uses mbox (certainly Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, etc) _must_ add the ">", and others may add it for safety's sake. Mike -- Mike Causer Email - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID 1C2DDA07 WWW - http://www.mikecauser.com Flood the fen again! - Wicken Fen enlargement - http://www.wicken.org.uk _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
