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    From Jean-Pierre Coulon@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 23 18:26:18 2023
    The standard hyphen-hyphen-space signature separator is well documented.
    But can a signature contain empty lines? The Alpine mail client considers
    the signature ends at the first empty line.

    --
    Jean-Pierre Coulon

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Jean-Pierre Coulon on Thu Nov 23 11:45:03 2023
    On 11/23/23 11:26, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:
    The standard hyphen-hyphen-space signature separator is well documented.
    But can a signature contain empty lines? The Alpine mail client considers
    the signature ends at the first empty line.

    I believe that the standard hyphen-hyphen-space signature separator is
    best described as a convention.

    Many things honor it, but they do it in subtly different ways.



    Grant. . . .

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  • From Jean-Pierre Coulon@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Thu Nov 23 22:07:25 2023
    On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Grant Taylor wrote:

    I believe that the standard hyphen-hyphen-space signature separator is best described as a convention.

    Good mail clients:
    1 : display signatures declared like this with a character color you can
    chose.

    2: remove this signature when you reply to a message.

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    Jean-Pierre Coulon

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Jean-Pierre Coulon on Thu Nov 23 15:23:38 2023
    On 11/23/23 15:07, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:
    Good mail clients:

    Yes, /good/ email clients follow the well established convention.

    Not all email clients do.



    Grant. . . .

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  • From Doc O'Leary ,@21:1/5 to Jean-Pierre Coulon on Sun Nov 26 14:42:25 2023
    For your reference, records indicate that
    Jean-Pierre Coulon <coulon@cacas.pam.obs-nice.fr> wrote:

    The standard hyphen-hyphen-space signature separator is well documented.
    But can a signature contain empty lines? The Alpine mail client considers
    the signature ends at the first empty line.

    According to:

    <https://alpineapp.email/alpine/alpine-info/misc/signature.html>

    “Alpine takes a very simple approach. It assumes that all text following the dashes are the signature.”

    So, regardless of any .sig arguments, you might have a bug to report.

    --
    "Also . . . I can kill you with my brain."
    River Tam, Trash, Firefly

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