On 16 March 2025 5:08:37 am IST, Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> wrote: >On Saturday, March 15, 2025 4:23:58 PM Mountain Standard Time Bart Martens >wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 11:47:50AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: >> > I apologize for sending three copies of this proposal. The digital >> > signature on the first two was mangled for some reason. >> >> Maybe you didn't wrap at 80 chars? > >In case anyone is interested in the details. > >I composed the text in Kate, which I have programmed to draw a visible line at >80 >columns, using that guide to create hard line-endings within the 80 character >limit. This >works around the recently introduced odd behavior with Kmail that appears to >be a half- >completed format=flowed implementation, which I felt was worth the extra >effort for the >actual text of the GR. > >I then copied the text into Kmail and sent it to the list, but somehow the >signature got >mangled. > >A bit of testing demonstrated there was some incompatibility between the >following three >things: > >1. The text of the email. >2. The way Kmail signed and sent the email. >3. The debian-vote mailing list. > >Other emails Kmail sends to debian-legal include my signature correctly. So, >it isn’t a >problem that always affects Kmail or always affects emails I send to >debian-vote. > >Using Kmail to send the same email to a personal Gmail address results in a >correct >signature. So, it isn’t a general problem with Kmail or with the text of the >email. > >Using Thunderbird to send the same text copied out of Kate to debian-vote >resulted in a >valid signature. That was the third copy of the email I sent.
I am confused -- IIUC you copied the same text to 2 different mail clients and sent to the same ML. One mail seems to have correct sig and the other does not. That is not possible unless text of one client is somehow mangled? Why does that happen for KMail? Best, Nilesh
