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From: schaefer@CSE.OGI.EDU (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Problems with sending mail with mush 7.1 and SunOS 4.1 (solved)
Message-ID: <9009121533.AA11597@cse.ogi.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 90 15:33:15 GMT
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On Sep 12, 10:44am, Thomas Grennefors TX/DKI wrote:
} Subject: Re: Problems with sending mail with mush 7.1 and SunOS 4.1 (solve
}
} The last line in my .signature wasn't a blank line so sendmail never got the
} end of mail command, beacuse it ended up in the signature line instead..
} This is still a bug but there is a simple workaround. Be sure that the last
} line in your .signature is a blank (empty) line. I hope this bug will be
} fixed in the next release.

The last line in your .signature does NOT need to be a blank line.
However, it is true that your .signature must end with a newline
character.  (A blank line is normally delimited by two consecutive
newlines, which is *not* required.)  The easy test is to run
"vi .signature" and see if you get the message "Incomplete last line".

Emacs not only doesn't warn you of missing newlines, but it also displays
the trailing newline in such a way that it appears that there is an extra
blank line at the end of the file.  (This is not an anti-emacs flame.  I
just want to explain where I think the "last line must be blank" idea is
coming from.)

You're right, though, that mush should notice the lack of a trailing
newline and do something sensible.

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Bart Schaefer						schaefer@cse.ogi.edu