181116 - signature text file formatting

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[H LeVant]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826

I have a signature file that gets added to all mail. It looks fine on the
composing screen but gets unformatted and spread all over the bottom of my
outgoing mail.
If I turn off html formatting, the problem goes away, but I can no longer make
type changes.. like bold, color etc.

This does not happen in NetScape 4.7 or 7.. which I have on other computers

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on compose
2.click on send
3.read my incoming copy of the mail

Actual Results:  
Name      title        address             phone    fax       email address

Expected Results:  
name
title
address
phone
fax
email address

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

(related to bug 135163?)
Reporter: Can you please attach such a mail here (.eml format) or otherwise
attach the full sourcecode of the mail

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

Attachment: mail from reporter, with samples

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

What line-length have you set text messages to wrap at?
(Look in Edit->Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Composition)

Asking because the longest line in your signature is 53 char's long (including a
lot of whitespaces both before and after the actual text.)

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http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181116
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Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

hmm i tested your signature and i wind up seeing the opposite of what you do:

-When i send as html mail, the signature is fine.
-If i send mail that has no formatted text, the signature will flow without
linebreaks, and in other words look wider the wider i make the window.

Tested with a day old trunk CVS build, Linux.

Comment 5

[H LeVant]

My line length is set at 72

Yesterday I found a setup screen specific to mail formatting other than the
usual edit/preferences.. now I can't get back to it.  It gave me a different
screen to select between html and text

Comment 6

[H LeVant]

removed the spaces before each line in my sig block..
sent it to myself in text formatting and html..
same results.. text works.. html spreads it allout across the page

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

H. LeVant:  Assuming you are still encountering the same problem...

I suspect the problem with the sig is not the leading space but the trailing 
spaces.

Can you attach the actual sig file that you use?  And an email message that 
shows the actual problem?  The one attached doesn't really show anything.

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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