karl's sig bug in evolution on hardy?

[Jay Daniels]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 06:44 +0200, 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


You may be correct Siggy.  I think the default behavior for Evolution
when Forwarding is forward as attachment, so here user would get message
as you see it.



jay