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pete$no$pam@pdlmail.demon.co.uk wrote:
>            tez@pierrot.co.uk "Terrance Richard Boyes" writes:
> 
> > Yep, sendmail does the conversion here, so all incoming/outgoing mail
> > with a From at the start of a line gets the ">" prepended. As far
> > as mailreaders are concerned surely they should do the conversion.
> 
> You haven't used PCElm then :-)  Well, in its default state

Oddly enough nope, AmigaElm OTOH...

> anyway which uses "From " as mail separator.  Incoming mail
> is fine because ka9q prepends the '>' as described, and
> outgoing mail is presumably handled similarly by the receiving
> smtp server.  The problem is with PCElm's "sent" files which
> are written transparently - any body text with lines beginning

Ah, ours works :) Just tested it to check. I would have expected
the code to be deep in the bowels of the original UNIX code and
hence it'd be unlikely that the later versions had lost it!

> I'd agree with that - annoying but not big.  Perhaps the best
> solution would be for those nice Demon (who support the DOS
> DIS suite) to supply the DIS package with a default "smtp
> separator" setting (eg. @@@@) in both autoexec.net and PCElm
> and the problem above would not arise.  If a separator were
> mandatory, one could dispense with the '>' processing.

And to fix PCElm to use the '>' if required...

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