[ILUG] KDE KMail / Konqueror

Wesley Darlington wesley at yelsew.com
Wed Sep 5 20:42:25 IST 2001


On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:32:53PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> mutt obviously does something similar (I haven't bothered investigating to
> deduce what its regex must be, but I know it at least wants an @ in the
> line) BUT mutt ignores a From line if it's preceded by a line matching \-{76}
> (and 75 or 77 won't do).

Octal 76 is a `>' character. Something (*) sticks a > before lines 
in the bodies of mail messages that begin with "From " so that 
mboxes work correctly (FSVO).

 From Wesley. <-- I didn't put a > at the beginning of that line, but
                 no doubt something will before you see it...?

(*) Can't remember what. Don't think it's an mta thing though.




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