Re: [Evolution] Messed Up Signature

[Eric Lambart <ximian nomeaning net>]

There's another problem with signatures and blank lines, which may or
may not be related.  For me, it is easy to reproduce (Evo 1.2.1):
1. Open a new message window, usually for me it's a reply so it has
quoted text (make sure you've got a signature selected).
2. Run 'killev' in a shell
3. Restart Evolution
4. Open a new message window; this will trigger the 'Evolution found
unsaved work' (I forget exactly what it says) message.
5. Say "YES", you want to recover unsaved messages; you can discard the
new, empty message.
6. go to step 2; repeat several times

Every time you kill and restart Evolution, the program will insert blank
lines between the message text and the "--" of the sig.  Since I leave
Evolution running 24/7, usually have a message in progress that it may
take me a few days to finish answering, and have to killev and restart
Evo at least once a day, I have seen this happen many times.

I currently have a message with more than a full page of blank lines
before the "--".

Note that all these blank lines are inserted _within_ the 'marching
ants' dotted-line box of the signature.

I will file a bug report with the text of this e-mail if you like.  If
you are unable to easily reproduce it, I will investigate further.  I
don't think it depends on what signature I use.

--Eric

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 02:50, Radek Doulík wrote:
> Hi Lane,
>
> try to create new signature with signature editor. Evolution seems to be
> working with your old signature as with text one plus it probably
> triggers some saving bug.
>
> Radek
>
> On Pá, 2003-01-31 at 23:36, Lane P. Lester wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:13, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: 
> > > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 08:27, Lane P. Lester wrote:
> > > > Often my signature gets blank lines inserted in it. An example is
> > > > shown below. There should be only one blank line between "Lane" and
> > > > the rest, and no blank line between the two bottom lines. Do you know
> > > > how I can prevent this?
> > >
> > > Is it when you are replying or when you are composing a new message?  I
> > > have no idea why it would do that only sometimes.
> > Well, maybe it's doing it all the time now, and it did it right with
> > the older version that used an external sig file, instead of the
> > internal editor. The sig looks right in the Composer; it's only the
> > version that gets sent that's wrong. 
> >
> > Lane
> >
> >
> >
> > Lane P. Lester / Madison County, Georgia
> >
> > Running Linux more and Windows less
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