digint/btrbk

btrbk-mail: Lines with >>> are parsed as quotes by email clients

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#376 opened on Mar 1, 2021

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Description

I'm using btrbk 0.27.1 wrapped inside the supplied btrbk-mail script, which sends me an email about success or failure. Unfortunately, the output of btrbk contains consecutive lines starting with >>> which is intepreted as email quotes by email cliens (Thunderbird in my case), making the email hard to read.

I would like to propose to use other characters instead. Maybe »»»?

Alternatively maybe a leading space would prevent the formatting? Or maybe there is an email header that can prevent formatting?

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Replace the '>>>' prefix in the email output with alternative characters such as '»»»' or add a leading space to prevent email clients from interpreting them as quotes.
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