GNU bug report logs - #23733
24.5; Emacs sometimes inserts superfluous ">" when sending e-mails

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at>

Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 20:58:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.5

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 23733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 23733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23733: 24.5;
 Emacs sometimes inserts superfluous ">" when sending e-mails
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:07:18 +0200

Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at> writes:

> I understand that it may be necessary to insert the ">" when Gnus sends
> the message. But certainly the ">" that was inserted only to quote
> "From" should not be shown on the *receiver* side. Instead, when Gnus
> displays the received mail or (as in the case of the mailing list) a
> HTML page is generated from received mails, the ">" should be stripped.

You can't do that because it's ambiguous.

Andreas.

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