On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:13, Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk> wrote: > In article <VA.000037fd.00e3371d at news.conactive.com>, > Kai Schaetzl <maillists at 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