[Mailman-Users] msg_footer and standard message signature question

[Mark Sapiro]

Daniel Novotny wrote:
>
>we have stumbled upon a problem, that in msg_footer, 
>Mailman discards the space at the end of the signature delimiter "-- ", 
>which should be two dashes and space,
>according to http://www.guckes.net/mail/sig.etiquette.html#sigdashes
>
>the code (Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py) says
> text = re.sub(r' *\r?\n', r'\n', template % d)
>so all the spaces before newline are eaten by the regex:
>is there any specific reason to strip the spaces? 
>The previous version of mailman just changed \r\n to \n ...
>
>We want to correct the signature problem, but we don't want any
>regression...


Yes. We strip the spaces because we now preserve format=flowed in the
Content-Type: header, but we don't want to flow the footer. But, we
went too far in stripping the space from a signature leadin.

Change the "text =" line above to

        text = re.sub(r'(?m)(?<!^--) +(?=\n)', '',
                      re.sub(r'\r\n', r'\n', template % d))

This fix has been committed for the next release.

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