Re: [Exim] exim 3 - command line issue

Gabor FUNK wrote:
> I noticed that when I send a mail from a script/cmdline using exim,
> and the text in the body contains "From " at the beginning of a line
> (_anywhere_ in the text) then it becomes replaced to ">From ".
> Eg.: text
>
> "line1
> From this moment... 2
> whatever 3
> from 4
> Grom 5
> From 6
> anything 7"
>
> cat text | mail xxx@???
> (tried mail [exim] -t too)
>
> becomes:
> "line1
>>From this moment... 2
> whatever 3
> from 4
> Grom 5
>>From 6
> anything 7"
>
> (Watch for the ">" at line 2 and 6)
>
> Exim version 3.36#1 (debian).
> Am I missing something, or is it a feature?

It's a feature. Required by standards.
Your receiving software is supposed to strip these.

- Jeremy