On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 12:08:02PM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
> On 11/20/24 11:37, The Wanderer wrote:
> > On 2024-11-20 at 11:24, e...@gmx.us wrote:
> > 
> > > On 11/20/24 10:20, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > 
> > > > If I had to guess, I would guess that Thunderbird is composing
> > > > HTML email, and then translating it to plain text, with trailing
> > > > spaces being lost during that translation.  Including the trailing
> > > > space on the signature separator.
> > > 
> > > Makes sense.  Does anyone using Thunderbird _not_ get trailing
> > > spaces stripped, or is it just me?
> > 
> > I don't (see signature below), but it may be worth noting that I am
> > using an *ancient* version of Thunderbird, because of UI/UX changes in
> > the meanwhile which I'm not willing to tolerate. It's far from
> > impossible that changes in more recent Thunderbird versions might have
> > broken this.
> 
> This is true.  What version?
> 
> BTW I received your separator as "--=20".  But that's once saved as eml.

This is quoted-printable. Most probably the way the mail was transported.

I guess it's the "rawest" it gets.

Cheers
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t
> Onscreen it looks fine, and the signature is greyed out.  Anyone know how to
> get a pure text version, if such a thing exists?

Reality is... complicated. Very [1] much so.

Cheers
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
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t 

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