[imp] "From" quoted when viewing received messages

[Rick Emery]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> This has nothing to do with IMP; it is because of the mailbox format you are
> using. mbox format mailboxes have a From line (no colon) at the beginning
> of every message with an address and date; it's how you tell where one
> message stops and another starts. Therefore it is illegal to have 'From '
> (note the space) to be the first 5 characters of any line. So your delivery
> agent - sendmail, postfix, whatever - prefixes any line that starts with
> 'From ' with a >, so that your mailbox doesn't become horribly corrupted
> and broken.
> 
> -chuck

Ahh...that makes sense, thanks.

Rick

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