[Enigmail] Signature Separator Conflict

[Dave Barton]

-------- Original Message --------
From: John Clizbe <John at Mozilla-Enigmail.org>
Date: Tue 11 Mar 2008 14:47:47 EST

> Dave Barton wrote:
>> I am running Enigmail version 0.95.6 (20080101) in Thunderbird version
>> 2.0.0.6 (20070728) with gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7
>>
>> I have searched the list archives and the project website and I have
>> been unable to locate a solution to the following problem.
>>
>> I create a plain text email and add a personal signature (see example at
>> the end of this post), then I sign the message with Enigmail (without
>> PGP/MIME enabled) and send the message.
>>
>> When I view the message normally my personal signature appears correctly
>> prefixed with a line consisting of 2 dashes & 1 space, as per RFC 3676
>> Sect. 4.3
>>
>> If I view the message source the line prefixing my personal signature
>> appears as "- --" (1 dash, 1 space, 2 dashes).
>>
>> This corruption only occurs if messages are signed with Enigmail.
> 
> Known bug. It's not Enigmail that's doing it but the Mozilla mailnews code used
> in Thunderbird and Seamonkey.
> 
> The earlier RFC 2646 is still often referenced.  The code recognizes "-- " and
> leaves it untouched, but once it is dash escaped by GnuPG, "- -- ", the mailnews
> code sees it as a trailing space and trims it.
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99922

Thanks John. The bug claims to be "RESOLVED FIXED", but obviously it's 
not. I will just use PGP/MIME and the "unfortunates" with incompatible 
mail/news readers will have to live with it.

Dave


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