At 3:39 AM EDT on August 13 Stephane Bortzmeyer sent off: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:12:56PM +0200, > Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 18 lines which said: > > > > But some people who write me do use -- at random places :-( and I want > > > to quote it nevertheless. I cannot find an option > > > 'include_sig_in_replies'. Any idea? > > > > while i might be very much wrong, i don't think this is mutt. looks > > like your editor strips the sig. > > You're right, I use Emacs' post.el > <URL:http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/mutt/> and I was able to include > the sig with: > > ; The original regexp also had a -- > (custom-set-variables > '(post-signature-pattern "\\(Cheers,\\| \\)")) > > Many thanks, everything works now.
But you're breaking it for the 90% or whatever of messages that have proper formatting. Try changing post-signature-pattern to "\\(-- \\|Cheers,\\| \\)" Normally the space is left out because of broken MTAs and people who've seen the ^-- but didn't know about the space. The best way to fix that is with this procmail recipe: # Correct wrong sig-dashes :0 fBw * ^--$ | sed -e 's/^--$/-- /' but post.el does not assume you use procmail by default. What I really meant in my previous post (but didn't specify because I didn't know what editor you were using) was to Customize post-backup-original to t, and then select and paste from *Original* when necessary. You can also try explaining to your correspondents why they shouldn't use "^-- \n" except at the start of a signature. -- "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." - Dan Quayle Robert I. Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/ PGP Key: http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/pgp.html
