274520 - Imported mozilla suite profile cannot print signature

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Simon Males]

This is pretty much the first time I have used TB, I am using the official 1.0
build. 

I imported my mail from Mozilla 1.8a5 20041122. Whenever I compose an email from
an imported account, the signature will not append. Resetting the signature
makes no difference. Creating a new account and new profile, signature works fine.

Comment 1

[Simon Males]

I have a little more detail. 

If a signature is stored in `/home/user/.sig` it imports to Thunderbird as
`/home/.sig`

Comment 2

[Richard van den Berg]

I think I found the cause for this. On my Debian Linux system, my Mozilla Suite
config directory is at /home/richard/.mozilla/default/z7mfc7u0.slt with the
prefs.js file containing:

user_pref("mail.identity.id6.sig_file", "/home/richard/.signature4");
user_pref("mail.identity.id6.sig_file-rel","[ProfD]../../../.signature4");

My TB config directory is at /home/richard/.mozilla-thunderbird/85kwh0qi.default
with prefs.js (after importing the Mozilla Suite settings) containing:

user_pref("mail.identity.id6.sig_file", "/home/.signature4");
user_pref("mail.identity.id6.sig_file-rel","[ProfD]../../../.signature4");

It seems that the sig_file-rel is used, and since TB uses one directory less
than the Suite, the absolute path ends up to be wrong.

BTW, resetting the signature did fix the problem for me. So this is really a
problem with the setting conversion tool to me.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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