karl's sig bug in evolution on hardy?

[Andrew Farris]

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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