List autoquoting? Re: [plug] Apache

[Matt Kemner]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Christian wrote:

> > >From what I read it was through a trojaned ssh client which logged
> 
> Why does the list automatically add a quote character to the first line
> of replies? 

That's not the list, that is your local SMTP server adding a > character
to lines where first word on the line is "From"

This is because the string "\n\nFrom " has special meaning to mail readers
(start of next message)

It's in an RFC somewhere, but I can't find it right now

 - Matt