Re: mbox or MAILDIR

[Aaron Schrab]

At 15:11 -0500 30 Aug 1999, David DeSimone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I cannot seem to find the place in the sources where the ">From" is
> being recognized and handled specially, but it is definitely happening.

It doesn't search for >From specifically, it searches for lines that
match the smileys variable.  The default for this variable is:

  (>From )|(:[-^]?[][)(><}{|/DP])

According to the NEWS file, this was added somewhere between 0.93 and
0.95.

-- 
Aaron Schrab     [EMAIL PROTECTED]      http://www.execpc.com/~aarons/
 I think it's a new feature.  Don't tell anyone it was an accident. :-)
    --Larry Wall on s/foo/bar/eieio