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

[Björn Torkelsson <torkel acc umu se>]

tis 2007-05-22 klockan 21:12 -0700 skrev DK Smith:
> Hi,
>
> I checked the same panel in the prefs before inquiring. It's possible I
> am missing something. Though, I should note that my first description of
> the problem allowed too much room for interpretation.
>
> For example, I am referring to a situation where a paragraph begins with
> the word "From", like "From sea to shining sea". On my build of
> evolution the greater-than character is inserted by the MTA, evolution. 
>
> So, the following is the result:
>
> ###
>
> > From sea to shining sea
>
> > From green to red.
>
> > From head to toe.
>
> ###
>
>
> 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.


/torkel