karl's sig bug in evolution on hardy?

[Karl F. Larsen]

Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 21:03 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 21:47 -0400, Fred Roller wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 19:48 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Ok, I'm not picking on Karl here ok.  Just trying to explain what's
>>>> happening with Evolution sigs on reply.
>>>>
>>>> If I reply to a message from karl f larsen in the list, Evolution does
>>>> not cut his sig, it cuts the ubuntu-users mailing list sig at the bottom
>>>> of the message.  Bug? perhaps, read on...
>>>>
>>>> However, if I reply to others on the list, Evolution cuts their sig; so,
>>>> whatsup with this sig problem?
>>>>
>>>> Furthermore, I can see nothing wrong with Karl's sig in the Message
>>>> window.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone with Evolution on hardy reproduce this problem?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> jay
>>>> -- 
>>>> my test sig
>>>>         
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> Evolution 2.26.1 on:
>>>
>>> Linux metis 2.6.28-14-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 01:19:55 UTC
>>> 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux 
>>>
>>> using gnome.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Fred R.
>>> www.fwrgallery.com
>>>
>>> "Life is like Linux - simple; if you are fighting it, you are doing
>>> something wrong."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> As stated before, my .procmailrc is correcting any "bad" sigs so I don't
>> really know if the original is correct or not.  However, Evolution bug
>> is cutting the ubuntu list sig, not the sig of the last author.
>>     
>
> In order to see what's going on, let your .procmailrc insert an additional
> FIXED line, say '\n-- \nFIXED\n', as is you can't tell a correct .sig
> from a fixed one.
>
> My procmailrc is cutting those boring and superfluous ML footers that
> make my postings only partially signed.
>
> Whether evolution's behavior is correct is hard to tell, you want it
> to cut on the 1st occurring delimiter, it cuts on the last one.
> Think of bottom quotings or forwarded messages, cutting on the first
> occurrence might loose some contents.
>
> my 2¢
>   Siggy
>   
    Why don't you all use Thunderbird which has none of those problems?


73 karl