On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:57:32 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
KP> I believe that comes from sendmail, and is due to the nature of Unix
KP> mailboxes and spool files. The sequence "<CR><LF><CR><LF>From" is used
KP> to denote the beginning of a message. If this sequence occurs in the
KP> middle of a message, sendmail is obligated to "quote" the "From" to
KP> prevent it from being recognized as a message delimiter.
If we put aside the issue if TB! should unescape the '>' before a From
or not, it is perhaps interesting to know that this behaviour of
delivery agents actually breaks S/MIME signed messages. I remember
having seen posts from Jamie D. with an invalid signature (JD has
"From Jamie..." in his signature). This doesn't happen with PGP,
because PGP escapes lines beginning with From as "-�From".
Regards
Peter
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