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.
These are the fun problems to troubleshoot. ;)
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Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org
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