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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#39902: smart quoting recognizes signature mark wrong
From:       Jost Schenck <jost.schenck () gmx ! de>
Date:       2002-03-30 4:12:19
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On Friday 29 March 2002 10:34, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > The signature of a mail is normally divided from the rest of the mail by
> > a "-- " i.e. two dashes and a space in one line. When replying to a mail
> > that contains two dashes in one line, i.e. just "--", kmail cuts off
> > everything below that (when smart quoting is turned on), which I've been
> > told not to be correct behaviour (there's some standard on this, but I
> > don't know the document). KMail should only check for "-- ", which is
> > what KMail also uses itself for appending signatures.
> >
> >
> >
> > (The person telling me about this standard is a standards-fetiscist, so I
> > do believe he is right here, even though I don't have an RFC or something
> > ...)
>
> As you can see, the text below your first '--' is still there.
> Can I close this bug or did I misunderstand you?

It has to be in exactly one line. I think that if you reply to this email
--
with smart quoting turned on, this line will not be quoted, but should be.
-- 
Only the text from here should be stripped from the reply.
-Jost.

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