karl's sig bug in evolution on hardy?

[Jay Daniels]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 13:21 -0500, Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 08:23 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Personally, I hate Thunderbird...but thats just my opinion.
> 
> Additionally, I still have yet to encounter this alleged 'bug' in
> Evolution, as all the mail is appearing to me exactly as I'd expect it
> to.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew
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See above, it cut ubuntu-user mailing list sig, but did not cut your
sig. there you go...

What release and version of Evolution are you using???


jay
-- 
hardy 8.04-3 here with Evolution 2.22.3.1