Closed Bug 377387 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Signature separator is not included when replying to a message

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Message Compose Window
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 231160

People

(Reporter: agent2026, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.10 (20070221)

While the '--' separator is included above the attached signature when composing a new message, it is not include when replying to a message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a signature file, and set your account options to attach the signature to your messages.
2. Reply to any message.
Actual Results:  
'--' separator is not included.

Expected Results:  
'--' separator should be included.
Only if you have chosen to reply on top. That's as designed, as the separator would otherwise the rest of the reply would become "part of the signature"...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Don't agree.  Without the separator, the reply becomes 'part of the signature'.  It should still have the separator when the user replies on top to separate the signature from the reply.  Any quoted text is generally treated with some heading and indentation of some sort, as is the quoted text below, to separate it from the message and signature on top.

On 4/16/07, bugzilla-daemon@mozilla.org <bugzilla-daemon@mozilla.org > wrote:

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    Magnus Melin <mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi> changed:

               What    |Removed                     |Added
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                     CC|                            |mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi
                 Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
             Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE
Bug 54570 is about detecting the end of signature.
Completely separate issue.  I'm referring to visual separation, as well as consistency.

Yes, but the discussion is relevant. 
As you can note from that bug, there is no real "end of signature" mechanism. Therefore, it's not a good idea to use the separator when top-replying.
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