43078 - newlines in signature when reading mail seems to get eaten

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 41637

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

In todays build (and I also experienced it before) the text below the "--" 
seeems to get shown without the newlines.
It only happens in certain messages, but please try to verify it in fx the 
posting:
Re: [OT] Netscape Marketing and decision making process
by Jerry Baker in the netscape.public.mozilla.general newsgroup.

Build 2000061908

Comment 1

[rhp (gone)]

Just making sure...but is this an HTML sig or plain text sig and what is the 
compose window? (html/plain)

- rhp

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

It's when reading fx posting made in plain text.

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

Attachment: Screenshot of signature in Mozilla and in Netscape 4.73

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

Direct URL to message that gets shown diffently in Mozilla and in Netscape 
4.73:
<URL:news://news.mozilla.org/394E871C.A14D1876%40weirdness.com>

In Mozilla the text below the "--" text has no newlines and in Netscape the text 
below the "--" shows just fine with newslines.

Comment 5

[Henrik Gemal]

Could it has something to do with UNIX newlines vs MSDOS newlines?
The error in the newsposting is weird.
It's a plain text posting, and the newslines before the signature shows fine 
but after the "--" it screwes up.

Comment 6

[rhp (gone)]

I think this seems to be working for me.

- rhp

Comment 7

[Henrik Gemal]

Nope, not for me. I'm still not getting any newlines shown. Did you check the 
article?

Comment 8

[Henrik Gemal]

Attachment: Screenshot of article in build 20000721

Comment 9

[rhp (gone)]

bummer...well, per marketing...

Comment 10

[Daniel Bratell]

Ben, something you know anything about?

Comment 11

[Henrik Gemal]

This could be related to bug 45791

Comment 12

[Daniel Bratell]

Looking at the source of the page after clicking the link given by Henrik Gemal 
above I might now what's breaking. The article is surrounded by a <pre>...</pre> 
and inside that <pre>, the sig is surrounded by a <div class="txt-sig"> which 1) 
breaks the <pre> or 2) has some strange kind of CSS attached to it.

Is <div> a legal child of <pre>?

Comment 13

[Henrik Gemal]

But I really dont understand why Mozilla puts all this CSS, div, etc... stuff 
into the news posting, when the news posting is plain text. Check out the source 
with Netscape 4.74 and there is *no* html, css, etc....

Comment 14

[Daniel Bratell]

It's a implementation detail. The plain text message is internally transformed 
to HTML to be displayed by the layout engine. That HTML should never be seen by 
the user but I guess there is a bug when viewing a message in the normal browser 
window. If you look at the "source" in the normal mailnews windows you will see 
the original raw message as you want. If that bug isn't in bugzilla yet, you're 
welcome to increase your bug count. :-)

Comment 15

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41637 ***

Comment 16

[Henrik Gemal]

Bug 46218 filed on the seeable HTML/CSS...

Comment 17

[Stephen Walker]

verified