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

From	gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)
Date	2024-11-22 00:40 +0100
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On 11/21/24 10:00, eben@gmx.us wrote:
> On 11/20/24 15:31, gene heskett wrote:
>> On 11/20/24 15:16, gene heskett wrote:
>>> On 11/20/24 11:24, eben@gmx.us wrote:
>>>> On 11/20/24 10:20, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 10:13:20 -0500, eben@gmx.us wrote:
>>>>>> Just for kicks:
>>>>>> This line has no trailing spaces.
>>>>>> This line has one trailing space.
>>>>>> This line has two trailing spaces.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the message I received, none of these lines have any trailing
>>>>> spaces.
>>>>
>>>> Dangit.
>>>
>>> What folks don't seem to get, is that the character preceding the "-- "
>>> needs to be a line feed, as does the character /after/ the space, 
>>> IOW, on
>>> a line by itself.
>>
>> Which is what I am sending from latest t-bird in what I think is plain 
>> text,
>> as below, and it works, my too long comment is not greyed out in the
>> incoming echo from the listserver. You should see it incoming but not 
>> in a
>> reply you make that quotes my msg for context. Your agent is supposed to
>> throw it away, not retransmitting it again and again.
> 
> Your sig separator arrived as "-- " not "--=20".  Why the difference?
> 
The =20 tells me its been converted to html style encoding some where. 
Might be your settings, might be the mail server you are using. IDK and 
haven't a clue.

> Also, yours works and mine doesn't, and we're both using a recent Tbird.
> What could we be doing differently?
> 
> .


Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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Thread

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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