[Spambayes] Supurious '>' in bodytext

Coe, Bob rcoe at CambridgeMA.GOV
Wed Feb 23 19:33:41 CET 2005


It must be a reflection of the old Unix "sendmail" convention, in which any line beginning with capital F was prepended with a caret to keep it from being confused with a "From" line (which would indicate the beginning of a new message).

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Neil Brooks
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:17 PM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: [Spambayes] Supurious '>' in bodytext
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> if you have a message that has lines like:
> >From now on this must stop.
> 
> The line is rewritten as:
> > From now on this must stop.
> 
> That is to say, a '>' and a space is prefixed to any line 
> that starts with 
> 'From'.
> 
> This appears to happen when the X-Spambayes-MailId: header is 
> added to the message.
> 
> This is using sb_imapfilter 1.0.3 on Python 2.4 on an IMAP inbox.
> 
> I think the bug may be buried in the Python email module.
> 
> Neil


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