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Scott K. Hutton writes:
 > That's what I always  thought, but I've  noted at least two situations
 > where  VM  is  doing  interesting  things after  the  MDA  deals  with
 > messages--the one I cited above, and another situation where
 > 
 >   -stuff
 > 
 > gets turned into
 > 
 >   - -stuff

This is quoting of digest message separators as specified in RFC 934.
VM will do this when creating digests and also when forwarding message
when vm-rfc934-forwarding is non-nil.

 > I've only noticed the second situation where people have replied to my
 > messages.  I can't seem to duplicate the problem  (might just be a bad
 > mailer out there on our campus).
 > 
 > I've had the "From" problem happen twice in the last two days.

I've seen this when people use things like "deliver" to
preprocess incoming mail.  Such programs need better emulate the
real mail delivery program.