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Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)
Date 2024-11-20 19:00 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 12:08:02PM -0500, eben@gmx.us wrote:
> On 11/20/24 11:37, The Wanderer wrote:
> > On 2024-11-20 at 11:24, eben@gmx.us wrote:
> > 
> > > On 11/20/24 10:20, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > 
> > > > If I had to guess, I would guess that Thunderbird is composing
> > > > HTML email, and then translating it to plain text, with trailing
> > > > spaces being lost during that translation.  Including the trailing
> > > > space on the signature separator.
> > > 
> > > Makes sense.  Does anyone using Thunderbird _not_ get trailing
> > > spaces stripped, or is it just me?
> > 
> > I don't (see signature below), but it may be worth noting that I am
> > using an *ancient* version of Thunderbird, because of UI/UX changes in
> > the meanwhile which I'm not willing to tolerate. It's far from
> > impossible that changes in more recent Thunderbird versions might have
> > broken this.
> 
> This is true.  What version?
> 
> BTW I received your separator as "--=20".  But that's once saved as eml.

This is quoted-printable. Most probably the way the mail was transported.

I guess it's the "rawest" it gets.

Cheers
-- 
t
> Onscreen it looks fine, and the signature is greyed out.  Anyone know how to
> get a pure text version, if such a thing exists?

Reality is... complicated. Very [1] much so.

Cheers
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
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t

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BD backup? Eben King <eben@gmx.us> - 2024-11-16 18:40 +0100
  Re: BD backup? Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2024-11-16 18:50 +0100
    Re: BD backup? eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-16 19:50 +0100
    Re: BD backup? Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-11-16 23:30 +0100
      Re: BD backup? eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-16 23:40 +0100
        Re: BD backup? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-11-17 03:30 +0100
    Re: BD backup? Jean-François Bachelet <jfbachelet@free.fr> - 2024-11-17 00:40 +0100
      Re: BD backup? eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-17 20:10 +0100
        Re: BD backup? Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-11-18 02:00 +0100
          Re: BD backup? Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-11-18 02:20 +0100
        mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2024-11-19 11:30 +0100
          Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-19 16:10 +0100
            Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2024-11-19 16:30 +0100
            Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) Markus Schönhaber <debian-user@list-post.mks-mail.de> - 2024-11-19 16:30 +0100
            Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2024-11-19 16:40 +0100
              Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2024-11-25 22:10 +0100
            Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-20 01:50 +0100
              Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-20 06:40 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-20 16:20 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-11-20 16:30 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-20 17:30 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-11-20 17:40 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-20 18:10 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-11-20 18:30 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-20 19:00 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-11-20 21:00 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-11-20 21:20 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-11-20 21:40 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2024-11-21 05:50 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-11-21 07:20 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-11-21 07:20 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2024-11-21 11:10 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-21 16:10 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-21 16:20 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-11-22 00:40 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-11-22 01:10 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-11-22 07:10 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-11-21 04:20 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-11-21 16:30 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-21 17:10 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-21 17:20 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-21 17:50 +0100
                Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-21 20:40 +0100
              Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-20 17:40 +0100
              Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-20 18:00 +0100

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