Re: Long lines trigger "Excessive signature"?

[James Thomas]

Otto J. Makela wrote:

> This is under Fedora release 40 (Forty), with GNU Emacs 29.4
> (build 1, x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.18.0,
> Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2024-07-16 and Gnus v5.13, posting via
> eternal-september.org
>
> When sending a message with lines longer than 79 charactes (like an URL),
> I am correctly prompted by gnus with
>
>       You have lines longer than 79 characters.  Really post? (y or n)
>
> but accepting this with y, if the message includes my normal automatically
> included 4-line signature (below, which I've used since 2010), gnus reject
> the posting with
>
>       Denied posting -- Excessive signature.
>
> This 4-line signature will be acceptable to gnus if I don't have long lines
> in my message, nor does a signature of 3 lines seem to trigger the issue.
> It seems to be a matter lines, not the character count of the signature.
>
> How should one go about debugging this?

The related code seems contained entirely in message.el, not gnus.

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