Comment 0 for bug 1567042

<mitya57> Why did Launchpad add '>' to the beginning of comment text in the mail? Compare:
<mitya57> http://paste.ubuntu.com/15604071/ — mail (leading >)
<mitya57> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-flashback/+bug/1563735/comments/10 — original comment (no >)
<cjwatson> mitya57: That's mbox escaping, which email.message.Message.as_string does by default. Please file a bug - I think sendmail() probably wants to exercise a little more control over the details there
<cjwatson> mitya57: IOW: LP isn't deliberately doing it, but some libraries are too damned clever
<cjwatson> https://docs.python.org/2/library/email.message.html#email.message.Message.as_string