--- mail.vim	2002-08-13 00:00:00.000000000 +0300
+++ mail.angdraug.vim	2002-08-27 10:30:24.000000000 +0300
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@
 " even and odd quoted lines
 " removed ':', it caused too many bogus highlighting
 " order is imporant here!
-syn match	mailQuoted1	"^\([A-Za-z]\+>\|[]|}>]\).*$"
-syn match	mailQuoted2	"^\(\([A-Za-z]\+>\|[]|}>]\)[ \t]*\)\{2}.*$"
-syn match	mailQuoted3	"^\(\([A-Za-z]\+>\|[]|}>]\)[ \t]*\)\{3}.*$"
-syn match	mailQuoted4	"^\(\([A-Za-z]\+>\|[]|}>]\)[ \t]*\)\{4}.*$"
-syn match	mailQuoted5	"^\(\([A-Za-z]\+>\|[]|}>]\)[ \t]*\)\{5}.*$"
-syn match	mailQuoted6	"^\(\([A-Za-z]\+>\|[]|}>]\)[ \t]*\)\{6}.*$"
+syn match	mailQuoted1	"^ \{0,4}\([[:alpha:]]\+>\|[]|}>]\).*$"
+syn match	mailQuoted2	"^ \{0,4}\(\([[:alpha:]]\+>\|[]|}>]\)[ \t]*\)\{2}.*$"
+syn match	mailQuoted3	"^ \{0,4}\(\([[:alpha:]]\+>\|[]|}>]\)[ \t]*\)\{3}.*$"
+syn match	mailQuoted4	"^ \{0,4}\(\([[:alpha:]]\+>\|[]|}>]\)[ \t]*\)\{4}.*$"
+syn match	mailQuoted5	"^ \{0,4}\(\([[:alpha:]]\+>\|[]|}>]\)[ \t]*\)\{5}.*$"
+syn match	mailQuoted6	"^ \{0,4}\(\([[:alpha:]]\+>\|[]|}>]\)[ \t]*\)\{6}.*$"
 
 " Need to sync on the header.  Assume we can do that within a hundred lines
 syn sync lines=100