I'm experiencing the same problem.
There's a linefeed/newline being inserted at the beginning of theContent. This creates the ">" when sent.
set content of newMessage to theContent
macOS 15.2 (24C101), Mail16.0 (3826.300.87.4.3)
2b3pro
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