Re: [Evolution] undesired insertion of '>' (greater than sign) in column 1

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 00:15 -0700, DK Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is this a feature? :)
> > 
> > Yes :-)
> > 
> > (Historically) lines beginning with From separates mail, thus From's in
> > the mailbody needs to be prepended with a '>' to indicate that it is not
> > the beginning of a new mail.
> 
> Well, that's certainly helpful. I presume, then, this is mentioned in an
> RFC somewhere... ?

I don't know about an RFC, but it's certainly a requirement of the mbox
format.  RFC's are usually only for intercommunication between
computers, this is a requirement of the internal interoperability
between programs within a computer.  More information is in the
Wikipedia entry for mbox

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox

and possibly the qmail mbox man page

   http://qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/mbox.html

Actually, having looked further, RFC 4155 describes the mbox format:

   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4155

P.