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Evolution signature script (line breaks not appearing)

Asked by Arnaud Soyez

Hi, I'm starting using Evolution since I installed Intrepid, and I'm using a signature script.
I write my emails as *plain text* and obviously my signature needs to be plain text too.
The problem is when I create a new mail or a reply, my signature doesn't have any line breaks (but it should). It appears as a single line...

Here's the script I use:

#!/bin/bash
echo -e '\t[weboide]: (Ubuntu)\n'
echo -e '[some text]\n'

I tried with \r\n but didn't work.

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Arnaud Soyez (weboide) said : 		#1

Solution found, it's kind of unpredicted, but follow the bug link to read more about this.

Here's what i had to use:

#!/bin/bash
echo -e '<pre>\t[weboide]: (Ubuntu)\n'
echo -e "[some text]\n</pre>"

It's weird to use html tags though everything in the new email is in plain text. I think Evolution interprets (or converts) html tags before putting it in the email body.