Re: [Evolution] Another nit pick.

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > > Whenever I start a paragraph in the body of a message with the
> > > preposition 'From' evolution greys out the sentence and marks it with an
> > > '>'.  eg. ">From my reading and the help I have received here, I
> > > understand that ..."

Since we are nitpicking... Evo does not gray out the line due to the
From, but rather cause your options are set to display quoted text in
gray. ;-)


> > > Is there a way to stop evo from doing this?
> >
> > "From" at the beginning of a line is reserved in email to indicate,
> > well, who the email is from.
>
> Since William is talking about the message body, this is incorrect.

No. :-)  Well, it's not entirely correct, but this isn't the reason. ;-)


Lines beginning with "From " do have a special meaning for plain mbox
format, they indicate the beginning of a new mail. Thus those lines are
forbidden in the mail body.

Depending on your "mail storage backend" you might see such lines being
prepended with a ">" char. It's already stored physically this way, as
the line occurs inside the body and is not the beginning of a new mail.

By "mail storage backend" I mean for example IMAP servers using Maildir
for physical storage, rather than mbox. Maildir is not affected by this.
IMAP server using mbox mmost likely are. I have seen clever escaping for
this in the past, substituting the F char by something equivalent.
Probably depends on the charset, don't remember the details OTOH.

Yes, I am totally aware this most likely isn't entirely correct either.
Just to shed some more light. Jeff knows... ;-)


> From do not read this line

The above line will be prepended by a ">" for most of the recipients. I
did start that line with the F char.

...guenther


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