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Re: KA9Q - From to >From in received mail

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From: Nick Leverton
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 00:00
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In article <dyNxFej030n@sktb.demon.co.uk>,
Paul L. Allen <pla@sktb.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Seems reasonable to me.  When I contemplated fixing Arc KA9Q I was just
>going to make the ">" code conditional on having the separator set to
>"From".  I suppose making it insert ">" before any instance of the separator
>in the body is a better idea.  Mind you, that will only improve matters
>if mailers which detect a particular separator detect "\nseparator" and
>not just "separator", but it's still a better idea than mine.

Elm itself is quite clever.  I forget the exact pattern, but it looks
for something formatted like a "From " line - IIRC from experiments, it
requires both an address with an @-sign and a correctly formatted date
before it treats it as a separator in a mailbox.  It's a pity that we're
now stuck with a raft of lesser software which just looks for the "From ".

Nick
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Subject: Re: KA9Q - From to >From in received mail
Date: 1998/01/10
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