karl's sig bug in evolution on hardy?

[Andrew Farris]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 15:09 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> 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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> > Registered Ubuntu User: 22747
> > 
> 
> 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???

Evolution 2.26.1 and Jaunty 9.04 :)

-- 
Andrew
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