Mail in 10.6.3 doing double or triple spacing with single "return"

Question

I got a new MBP with OX 10.6.3. I've never experienced this problem with 10.5.8 on my previous laptop, and a call to Apple support has not solved it yet (either they never heard it or it's unique to me). Figured I'd ask the community.
In the Mail program, I can click reply or forward to a message in the inbox, manually highlight my signature, hit delete key (to remove signature), type the first line (such as, "dear so-and-so,") and hit the return key once.
Mail will sometimes drop in 2 or 3 blanks lines with that single press of the return key. When then hit the delete key, it will step backwards one line at a time.
This does not happen when I click reply/forward and use the signature pop-up menu set to "none." It only happens when I manually highlight my signature and press delete to remove it.
It doesn't happen every time either (very odd). I can do a test reply to the same message repeatedly and see it happen 30% to 50% of the time.
I can reproduce the problem by replying to different emails (so the problem doesn't seem to be tied to the sender's email address or the content of the email I'm replying to/forwarding).
My signature is plain text. It looks like this:
(blank line for visual space)
Let me know if I can be of further assistance.
-My Name
(2 blank lines for visual space)
My Name
My Company
My Address Line 1
My Address Line 2
My email
My web address
My phone
My fax
(blank line for visual space)
Another strange tidbit. If I remove the blank line at the END of my signature, the problem goes away. Yet, if I leave the blank line at the END of my signature, I don't see the problem when I compose a NEW message (only with reply/forward).
It's almost as if the blank line at the end of the signature causes the problem only when there is quoted content.
And one final piece of strangeness. If I go into my signature, remove the blank lines at the end of the signature text, and add a SINGLE blank line after my fax# and close the preferences... now re-open the preferences, the Mail program has added a SECOND blank line after my fax# all by itself.
I tried removing the signatures folder from home > library > mail (thought it might be corrupted file or something), but the problem persists. I tried deleting the signature within Mail and re-creating it, typing it in manually, but the problem persists.
I have not yet experimented with new accounts/users. I've never used the Automator script program.
Any thoughts?
Message was edited by: mrcatman

Answer 1

I got a new MBP with OX 10.6.3. I've never experienced this problem with 10.5.8 on my previous laptop, and a call to Apple support has not solved it yet (either they never heard it or it's unique to me). Figured I'd ask the community.
In the Mail program, I can click reply or forward to a message in the inbox, manually highlight my signature, hit delete key (to remove signature), type the first line (such as, "dear so-and-so,") and hit the return key once.
Mail will sometimes drop in 2 or 3 blanks lines with that single press of the return key. When then hit the delete key, it will step backwards one line at a time.
This does not happen when I click reply/forward and use the signature pop-up menu set to "none." It only happens when I manually highlight my signature and press delete to remove it.
It doesn't happen every time either (very odd). I can do a test reply to the same message repeatedly and see it happen 30% to 50% of the time.
I can reproduce the problem by replying to different emails (so the problem doesn't seem to be tied to the sender's email address or the content of the email I'm replying to/forwarding).
My signature is plain text. It looks like this:
(blank line for visual space)
Let me know if I can be of further assistance.
-My Name
(2 blank lines for visual space)
My Name
My Company
My Address Line 1
My Address Line 2
My email
My web address
My phone
My fax
(blank line for visual space)
Another strange tidbit. If I remove the blank line at the END of my signature, the problem goes away. Yet, if I leave the blank line at the END of my signature, I don't see the problem when I compose a NEW message (only with reply/forward).
It's almost as if the blank line at the end of the signature causes the problem only when there is quoted content.
And one final piece of strangeness. If I go into my signature, remove the blank lines at the end of the signature text, and add a SINGLE blank line after my fax# and close the preferences... now re-open the preferences, the Mail program has added a SECOND blank line after my fax# all by itself.
I tried removing the signatures folder from home > library > mail (thought it might be corrupted file or something), but the problem persists. I tried deleting the signature within Mail and re-creating it, typing it in manually, but the problem persists.
I have not yet experimented with new accounts/users. I've never used the Automator script program.
Any thoughts?
Message was edited by: mrcatman