282306 - The signature shows up incorrect, two hyphens are added in front of it.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Fritz Wettstein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

the stored signature:
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Fritz Wettstein-Bossard
Gubelstrasse 14
CH-6300 Zug

Phone:  [phone]
Mobile: [phone]

the signature as it is inserted by Thunderbird:
-- 
-----------------------
Fritz Wettstein-Bossard
Gubelstrasse 14
CH-6300 Zug

Phone:  [phone]
Mobile: [phone]

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a file containing the signature using a program that produes plain
text, vi for example.
2. define this file in the accounts properties as the signature to be used
3. 

Actual Results:  
to hyphens are inserted in front of the signature by the software

Expected Results:  
use the signature as stored in the file

Comment 1

[Markus Faßbender]

This isn't a bug.
The two hyphens are standard norm for signatures in mails.

Please close the bug as INVALID

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

See
<http://www1.ietf.org/proceedings_new/04nov/IDs/draft-ietf-usefor-useage-00.txt>,
paragraph 3.1.2.1