On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:13, Tony Mountifield tony@softins.clara.co.uk wrote:
In article VA.000037fd.00e3371d@news.conactive.com, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
Anthony Kamau wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:40:10 +1000:
From here, I run the rsync command without the need for the -e option.
">" is a quote marker, don't write your own text after a quote marker!
He probably didn't do it himself. Some mail transports prepend a '>' to any line that begins with "From ", because otherwise such a line could be interpreted as a message delimiter in a standard Unix mailbox.
But escaping "From " to ">From " should be done only by the program that writes to an mbox formatted file.
See: http://qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/mbox.html
Looks like another thing that his MUA (header says X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11) is doing wrong.
[Unless it is an artifact of the mailing list software, in which case I would apologize to the makers of said MUA. But if I had to bet, I would say it's the MUA's fault.]
Filipe