131371 - per-newsgroup signatures

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Garth Wallace]

Many newsreaders have a feature whereby different signatures may be assigned to
different newsgroups, so that a message sent to a specific group will have the
appropriate signature attached. Not of earth-shattering importance, but there
are many times when it would be quite nice.

The one problem I see is when a user crossposts to two or more newsgroups with
their own sigs. Which signature should be appended? Should the user have to
choose from a dialog or menu (intrusive)? Should the default sig be appended
instead? Should the sigs be concatenated (this could pass the 4-line limit
pretty quickly)?

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

-->varada

Comment 2

[Frank Schönheit]

related to bug 166293 and/or bug 44863?

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking all of varada's bugs.

Comment 4

[Dave Royal]

Important IMO when posting to NGs in different languages.

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 6

[Robin Monks]

I'll give this a whirl, it might not come fast though, so I'll won't ASSIGN in case some young whipper-snapper (or old wimper-sniper) wants to grab it and fix it faster than I.

Comment 7

[Robin Monks]

I think the best way to accomplish this, at least the way I'll try, is a user preference between prompting if multiple signatures apply, or automatically using the default sig.  That's gives the user the choice to be disturbed.  A popup the first time such a conflict occurs could offer the option, as well as a "use default automatically next time" checkbox.

Robin

Comment 8

[Robin Monks]

I'll have to pass on this after all, it's too complex for someone as new to this as myself.

Comment 9

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"