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

[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!