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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    BUG: Signature identifier identify wrongly
From:       Claus =?iso-8859-1?q?S=F8rensen?= <cs () chbs ! dk>
Date:       2002-01-29 15:18:42
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When I reply to a mail which has a line containing only two hyphens the 
reply deletes everything beneath the two hyphens.

But the correct way to show that it is a signature is a line containing 
only two hyphens _and_ a space.

Example:

You can se a part of RFC 1036 which is quoted beneath
--
          Early difficulties in inferring return addresses from  arti-
          cle  headers led to "signatures": short closing texts, auto-
          matically added to the end of articles  by  posting  agents,
          identifying the poster and giving his network addresses etc.
          If a poster or posting agent does append a signature  to  an
          article,  the  signature SHOULD be preceded with a delimiter
          line containing (only) two hyphens (ASCII  45)  followed  by
          one  blank  (ASCII  32).   Posting  agents  SHOULD limit the
          length of signatures,  since  verbose  excess  bordering  on
          abuse  is  common  if  no restraint is imposed; 4 lines is a
          common limit.
--
I hope you understand my example and would change it in the coming 
releases of KMail.

Thanks in advance.

And beneath is my signature
-- 
Most enjoyable greetings _/
                      __/ | +              I wanna live in a world where 
Claus Sørensen       /    (_   .           all communication is based on
Nøddelunden 110      |     _}     _        free and open standards so
DK-2765 Smørum       (    |_o `)(| )       every one have the freedom to 
cs@chbs.dk           \   /(_)-(_  ('       choose.
                      |__\o./  _><o          .      Claus Sørensen, 2001
http://www.chbs.dk    DENMARK '--|'        []
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