When posting by email, "-- " should be recognised as a signature seperator.

[swaldman]

Title:
When posting by email, "-- " should be recognised as a signature seperator.

Area:
email posting

Summary:
When posting by email, Dreamwidth automatically strips signatures after a standard "-- " separator. Make it also recognise "-- " as being the same thing.

Description:
The email client on my new phone apparently thinks that all email signatures should be in HTML, with   every time a space is typed. Therefore, the best signature separator that I can produce is "-- ". This is almost certainly wrong in terms of standards, but I imagine that supporting it in DW would be trivial, and I can't think of any cases where it would cause problems.

Poll #2542 When posting by email, "-- " should be recognised as a signature seperator.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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Should be implemented as-is.
29 (63.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (4.3%)

(I have no opinion)
15 (32.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[katieastrophe]

My email signature is just "--", not "-- " and it still works.

[swaldman]

Oddly enough, having made this suggestion two years ago I've just taken on implementing it as my second ever bug ;-)

You may (or may not) be interested to know that we currently recognize a line consisting of two more more hyphens or underscores followed by zero or more spaces as a sig seperator. Hence "--" works, as would "___ " or "_-_-_- ", should that take your fancy...
Also, for some reason, "-- -- ". (but NOT "__ __ "). Presumably that must once have been a convention somewhere!

[foxfirefey]

This sounds like it'd probably be a really easy fix, and good for people like you.

[pseudomonas]

Signature delimiters that are a) out there in the wild pretty frequently and b) not much more likely than the default to be a false positive should be stripped.

[sophie]

...with   every time a space is typed...

...there's software designed like that? Crap, there is so much wrong with that I don't know where to begin.

For the record,   is supposed to be for a non-breaking space, which means that text wouldn't wrap around at the margins. It's the sort of thing where it you used it on this comment it would make each line of it extend out of the page and would need a horizontal scrollbar to view it all.

This is in Bugzilla now, which is good, because ARGH HULK SMASH. I just felt the need to come here and vent. Sorry about that. I think I feel better now.

[swaldman]

...there's software designed like that? Crap, there is so much wrong with that I don't know where to begin.

I agree. Though I'd begin not with that, but with the fact that it offers no option to not send HTML email...

...but, there it is.