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Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Secondly, RFC 2646 compliant MUAs should never generate this case in
> the first place.  Even if you don't generate RFC 2646 (Gnus doesn't)
> you could QP encode the character to prevent the ambiguity.  In Gnus
> you could put text properties on quote ">" characters to separate
> them from any ">" characters the user enters (of course a user
> should be able to insert quote ">" characters as well) and when
> sending the mail, QP encode the quote ">" characters.  But this
> becomes quite complicated for little gain, I think.

I'm partly working on this (RFC2646, generating it) already. But
expect no progress for a little while atleast.

-- Naked