Re: Message munging

[Mark Edgar <medgar@...>]

Aaron Brown wrote:
> Sorry for the extraneous quote marker.  It was not in the
> message as sent, and was added by either Outlook Express,
> Hotmail, or the list server.  I would normally be eager to
> blame Outlook Express or Hotmail and hesitant to blame the
> list server, but I did send myself an identical message and
> I received it unmunged.  Has anyone had similar problems?

Mailbox handlers for "mbox" family of formats must quote message body 
lines which start with "From " in order to distinguish such lines from 
those which start a message.  I'll bet the Lua list service uses such a 
format somewhere along the way.

http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html

					-Mark