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It doesn't respect ~/.signature in text-only emails: The tearline and everything under it is just put on one continuous line (together with the body text proper).

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What is ~/.signature?

It's the “signature” (free text, but people use it for information, address, phone number, disclaimers and what not). It appears under the “tearline”, that consists of two dashes and a space (“-- ”).

On unix OSes it lives as the file ~/.signature, and many email clients will insert the contents of that file under the tearline in outgoing emails. E.g.: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma...

But how is a website supposted to get access to user's files in his homedir?

It's not. Sender's email client will/can insert their ~/.signature file at the end of each outgoing email. When such an email is read in email.ml, the signature is mangled in the way I originally described.

Ah, that's why I was confused: I did not understand why would a website has anything to do with files on a POSIXish machine. Thanks.

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