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Jorge Gonzalez wrote:
 > In the composition buffer, I always had a newline between the final
 > line of the message and my signature (which was never longer than four
 > lines, plus a linefeed).  When the base64-encoded message was decoded,
 > however, all newlines were stripped from the email, with the effect
 > that you describe above.

But the real problem was that the message was base64-encoded at all.  So
the fact that decoding it produced an unexpected result is just a clue
about why it was encoded in the first place, right?

 > Oddly, though, this happened when the
 > message was decoded on one host (IRIX), but not others (Solaris and
 > Linux).  The IRIX server's sendmail (that's /usr/lib/sendmail, not
 > Emacs' sendmail) auto-converts text/plain MIME email.  The Sun and
 > Linux boxes retained (or reinserted) the linefeeds in the
 > base64-encoded messages.  In the latter two cases the messages were
 > decoded in VM by the mimencode and base64-decode external programs.

Sounds like IRIX's auto-conversion is trying to do a little too much.

 > I'll apply the patch, re-enable vmpc-intangible-sig, and let you know
 > what happens.

If the problem only occurs with vmp-intangible-sig in combination with
long paragraphs, the patch should help.  But it sounds like the long
paragraphs are being treated as 1 long line as well during composition
regardless.

 > VM is the best-supported software package I've ever encountered.
 > Thanks for your help.

You're welcome.  I like hacking on VM, but I don't support it.  We need
Kyle back to do that.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers