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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/10/07 02:38
Rik wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Rik wrote:
>>> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>> Damn, sig-seperator not working for you? The fix for Thunderbird
>>>>> seems to be in the nightly build, I trust this will be fixed in an
>>>>> official release soon :-)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nope - because two hyphens starting a line are not a separator.
>>>>
>>>> The correct sig separator is hyphen-hyphen-space-newline alone on a
>>>> single line. That works fine here.
>>> It's there, it's just because this combination:
>>> - Quoted Printable
>>> - format=flowed
>>> - delsp=yes
>>> let's Thunderbird (and SeaMonkey) eagerly strip away a space that
>>> should not be stripped. Had a whole discussion about it in
>>> alt.internet.search-engines / alt.html (the whole thread is
>>> crossposted..).
>>> MSOE(with Quotefix)/Pan/Opera/Forte Agent/Xnews all don't seem to
>>> have that problem :P
>>
>> Hmmm, OK, I see what you mean. Maybe delsp is doing what it's
>> supposed to do?
>
> <http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=3676>
> 4.3. Usenet Signature Convention
>
> There is a long-standing convention in Usenet news which also
> commonly appears in Internet mail of using "-- " as the separator
> line between the body and the signature of a message. When
> generating a Format=Flowed message containing a Usenet-style
> separator before the signature, the separator line is sent as-is.
> This is a special case; an (optionally quoted or quoted and stuffed)
> line consisting of DASH DASH SP is neither fixed nor flowed.
>
> Generating agents MUST NOT end a paragraph with such a signature
> line.
>
> A receiving agent needs to test for a signature line both before the
> test for a quoted line (see Section 4.5) and also after logically
> counting and deleting quote marks and stuffing (see Section 4.4) from
> a quoted line.
>
> Thunderbird fails to test for a signature line however.
> --Rik Wasmus
> Posted on Usenet, not any forum you might see this in.
> Ask Smart Questions: http://tinyurl.com/anel
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I wasn't saying Thunderbird wasn't wrong. Just
that they misinterpreted the spec. Or, more likely, just didn't think
about the sigs problem.
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