Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to

Tom Russello [off-list ref] wrote:

This new option takes an email message file, parses it, fills the "To",
"Subject" and "Cc" fields appropriately and quote the message.
This option involves the `--compose` mode to edit the cover letter quoting the
given email.

Cool!  There should probably be some help text to encourage
trimming down the quoted text to only relevant portions.

+	#Message body
+	while (<$fh>) {
+		#for files containing crlf line endings
+		$_=~ s/\r//g;
+		my $space="";
+		if (/^[^>]/) {
+			$space = " ";
+		}
+		$message_quoted .=  ">".$space.$_;

Is this really necessary to switch between "> " and ">" prefix?
AFAIK, MUAs prefix unconditionally with "> ".
At least that's how mutt does it...