Re: Mail in Tiger signature problem.

Graham J Lee <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andy Hewitt wrote:
> > I've noticed that signatures in Mail no longer get trimmed (ala. Windows
> > Outlook) when you reply. Anybody else found this?
> >
>
> The whole thing is a dog's dinner. You're right that sigs aren't
> getting trimmed, but there's worse than that. Sometimes, when I add my
> sig, it does so on the line after the message. Sometimes it adds a few
> blank lines in. If you're in the sig and change it, the cursor goes
> back up to the beginning as if you wanted to top-post a reply; there are
> a few things that can cause that to happen. If you use the cursors to
> get to the end of a message to type after the end, sometimes you
> characters appear at the top, sometimes they appear at the bottom but in
> the colour of one-level-quoted text...
>
> I'm weaning myself onto Thunderbird on my laptop, but still use Mail at
> work because it's what the users use.

They certainly seem to have broken Mail for now for sure. I also noted
the extra lines appearing too - even worse when you do a Mail to Mail
conversation.

I have also found that the quoting colour gets attributed to the reply
text too.

I would use Eudora myself, except for the appalling HTML handling, which
I do use, although only for mailing I choose to receive, I never send a
HTML message myself.

Thunderbird is good, although I have experienced a bug where sent
messages are not saved. I also have a need to change signatures
depending on who I send mail too, that's not easy in Thunderbird.

So for now, Mail is the only app that actually meets my own
requirements.

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(updated Feb 21 2005)
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