149806 - "-- " signature prefix in mail signatures should be optional

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58406

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Rory Hunter]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020519
BuildID:    2002051920

Mozilla doesn't add a leading "--\n" (or similar) to an email signature  if that
string is already present. However, I prefer to use "-- Name\n" as the first
line of my sig.

Leading slashes should either be subject to disabling (cf: bug 58406), probably
via prefs.js, or Mozilla should allow "--.*(\n|\r)" as the first line of a
signature (cf: bug 30208), IMHO. I've read the relevant portion of
son-of-rfc-1036, but I don't see that this shouldn't be configurable. Sorry to
open a new bug but this was recommended in 30208.

Comment 1

[Garth Wallace]

Other mail programs won't recognize "-- Name\n" as the beginning of a signature,
thus Mozilla shouldn't add it. A sigdash is only defined as "-- \n", nothing
more, nothing less.

Comment 2

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

What is the point of this bug? What is it what we don't have in bug 58406?

pi

Comment 3

[Rory Hunter]

Actually, re-reading bug 58406, this is really a duplicate. Sorry about that.

Comment 4

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58406 ***

Comment 5

[esther]

verified