🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9712241446.3nyj@pierrot.co.uk>
           tez@pierrot.co.uk "Terrance Richard Boyes" wrote:

>Claire (9712q$cl@siberia.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>> 
>> something like this must be required on UNIX systems, or on any
>> others that use the "From " lines as message separators, so I
>> assume that its use is widespread.
>
>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.

That's the point, they can't because when they see

>From fred

They can't tell whether the > was in the original or one inserted
by the system.  All *nix systems I know are 'broken' like this, I
don't know why no-one ever fixed it there.  You can see it in the 
*nix mailreaders, they have exactly the same problem.

I'm currently planning to port elm - not the PCElm thing - to
DJGPP.  AFAICS it should be pretty easy, because it's configured
for GCC anyway...

(If you want me to see replies, please mail as well; I'm currently
working in Germany and can't get the Demon newsgroups there.  If
someone knows of a public access NNTP server which carries them and 
allows posting from non-Demon sites I'd be interested...)

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