On Sunday 02 October 2005 13:17, Chema Ollés wrote: <snip> > > so: do you type the signature "manually" or do you use a textfile? <snip> > "My separator" have a space at the end (you can see I write an *) > Well,I use a text file.
Hello, Thunderbird sends "text" e-mails in "format="text/flowed" format. This is a specialized markup designed to enhance the portability of text messages across a variety of platforms, display types and font sizes (think cell phones to PDAs to notebooks, and so on.) Compatible e-mail clients *dynamically insert and remove trailing spaces and newlines* as needed to wrap text to match the display. It seems Thunderbird's "text/flowed" encoding mechanism likes to strip "excess" trailing spaces from outgoing e-mails, too. In my case, it was stripping the trailing space from the signature delimiter each time it appended my signature (a plain vanilla ASCII text file.) By the way, to see this you have to 'cat' or 'less' an affected e-mail from the command line or open it in a proper text editor. Otherwise, Thunderbird's embedded "text/flowed" parser inserts the desired space dynamically when the file is opened and viewed natively. I researched and tweaked and debugged this problem for over a week and got nowhere. I eventually gave up in disgust and switched to KMail. Case closed (here, at least) and I haven't looked back since. Of course, YMMV... regards, - Carl --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
