>>>>> James Thomas <jim...@gmx.net> writes:
> Otto J. Makela wrote:
>> This is under Fedora release 40 (Forty), with GNU Emacs 29.4
>> (build 1, x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version
>> 1.18.0, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2024-07-16 and Gnus v5.13, posting
>> via eternal-september.org
>>
>> When sending a message with lines longer than 79 charactes (like
>> an URL), I am correctly prompted by gnus with
>>
>> You have lines longer than 79 characters. Really post? (y or n)
>>
>> but accepting this with y, if the message includes my normal
>> automatically included 4-line signature (below, which I've used
>> since 2010), gnus reject the posting with
>>
>> Denied posting -- Excessive signature.
>>
>> This 4-line signature will be acceptable to gnus if I don't have
>> long lines in my message, nor does a signature of 3 lines seem to
>> trigger the issue. It seems to be a matter lines, not the
>> character count of the signature.
>>
>> How should one go about debugging this?
> The related code seems contained entirely in message.el, not gnus.
Have you set the variable `gnus-signature-limit' to nil?
