[Enigmail] Signature Separator Conflict

[John Clizbe]

Dave Barton wrote:
> I am running Enigmail version 0.95.6 (20080101) in Thunderbird version
> 2.0.0.6 (20070728) with gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7
> 
> I have searched the list archives and the project website and I have
> been unable to locate a solution to the following problem.
> 
> I create a plain text email and add a personal signature (see example at
> the end of this post), then I sign the message with Enigmail (without
> PGP/MIME enabled) and send the message.
> 
> When I view the message normally my personal signature appears correctly
> prefixed with a line consisting of 2 dashes & 1 space, as per RFC 3676
> Sect. 4.3
> 
> If I view the message source the line prefixing my personal signature
> appears as "- --" (1 dash, 1 space, 2 dashes).
> 
> This corruption only occurs if messages are signed with Enigmail.

Known bug. It's not Enigmail that's doing it but the Mozilla mailnews code used
in Thunderbird and Seamonkey.

The earlier RFC 2646 is still often referenced.  The code recognizes "-- " and
leaves it untouched, but once it is dash escaped by GnuPG, "- -- ", the mailnews
code sees it as a trailing space and trims it.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99922

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