231926 - automatic mailing list footer/signature removal on reply

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Simon Males]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210

Have an option (about:config at least) to chop mailing list footer/signature's
in a response. 

To complete this feature research would have to be done if there is a RFC on
mailing lists, and what defaults mailing lists use as footers. 

The default for the mailman lists on both mozilla.org and mozdev.org is the "-"
(dash) character repeated 48 times with no whitespace.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive an email from a mailing list which doesn't contain "-- "
2. Hit Reply with 'Automatic quotation' enabled


Actual Results:  
Mailing list footer remains.

Expected Results:  
Mailing list footer is removed.

If there is a "-- "(signature delimiter) before the mailing list footer,
everything below and including the delimiter will be cut in the response.

This bug can raise conflict of interest in respect to top postings

Comment 1

[mdimitrio]

This behavior already exists in Mozilla. In a reply, everything below "-- " is
deleted. But right now it's buggy, and is causing undesired effects. See Bug 201581.

Reporter, is this bug about improving this feature? If not, this bug is invalid,
because the feature already exists.

Marcos.

Comment 2

[Simon Males]

1. Note the 3rd last line of my description in reference to "-- "
2. Note the Severity "enhancement"

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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