270140 - Signature gets wrapped even if no longer than 80 characters

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Johannes Kastl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104

As far as I know, a signature is separated from the rest of an email with the
"-- " sign, so that it is not quoted when replying. And a signature can be 80
characters in on line, because there is no nedd to reqrap it when quoting. This
is different to normal text, which should be wrapped at about 68 to 72 characters.

But why is Mozilla wrapping the signature also? I would say it would be better
to wrap the text and leave the signature unwrapped.

Like 

texttexttexttexttexttextt72
texttexttexttexttexttextt72
texttexttexttexttexttextt72
-- 
signaturesignaturesignature.......80

(just a small sketch ahem...)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Createa text file with a line length of 80 characters
2. Add this File as a signature (Mail-settings...)
3. See that the text is wrapped at the linelength that is set in Mozilla.

Actual Results:  
The signature, even if separated with "-- "is rewrapped.

Expected Results:  
The signature remains unwrapped, only the text is wrapped.

As a hack, if you change the spaces from '0x20' to '0xA0' the signature is not
wrapped. That is what I was told in de.comm.software.mozilla.mailnews.

I had this problem on every Mozilla I used, wether linux or windows, I would
guess it is not only on PC but also other platforms.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

HTML compose, plain-text sig, plain-text wrap column set to zero?  Then this is 
a dupe of bug 221596.

Comment 2

[Johannes Kastl]

No, plaintext mail, plaintext sig from file, line length set to 72 or 65 or 68...

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #2)
> No, plaintext mail, plaintext sig from file, line length set to 72
> or 65 or 68...

OK, I see.  What you're asking for is really an enhancement.

Do you want no wrapping at all on a sig; or always to wrap the sig at 80 
characters?  If the former, you open up to sending mail with lines of unlimited 
length (which is already an issue in certain other situations).  If the latter, 
somebody will want to make that limit a separate preference so they can have an 
82- or 85- or 90- character line in their sig.

FWIW, if you send the message out with format=flowed (which is the default) and 
the recipient supports that, the sig's lines will extend to their full length if 
the window is wide enough.

Comment 4

[Johannes Kastl]

Is it really an enhancement? 
Why is there any need to wrap the signature? As far as I know there is no rule
for signature, except that it is 4 lines, and each 80 characters long. If you
rewrap it, you have to shorten each signature. That sucks.

Just my 2 cents

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.