635280 - Signature is included in quoted text when replying to HTML email and default format is set to plain text

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 43829

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Charles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: 3.1.7

Subject says it all...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set message format to plain text
2. Select an HTML email that has a signature and also has the '-- ' signature delimeter
3. Click Reply
Actual Results:  
Note that the signature, delimeter and all, is included in the quoted text.

Expected Results:  
The signature should be ignored/NOT included in the quoted text.

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

That's bug 43829, arguing there that the "-- " delimiter is only standardized for plain-text but not for HTML messages. So, does your message have both a plain-text and an HTML part? In that case, it should be unambiguous as the plain-text representation should be taken for the reply (or maybe not, Ben?).

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

We use HTML when quoting. Likely, we'll use the HTML editor, so the HTML is useful.

Even if you use the plaintext editor, we still take the HTML and downconvert it.

Comment 4

[rsx11m]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Even if you use the plaintext editor, we still take the HTML and downconvert

That's bug 565949, I remembered that it was discussed elsewhere already...