Bug 6376 - kmail shouldn't auto-add signature to f/w's and re:'s
Summary: kmail shouldn't auto-add signature to f/w's and re:'s
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: composer (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Other
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2000-07-16 13:48 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2009-07-20 15:40 UTC (History)
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Description Jedd 2000-07-16 13:34:46 UTC
(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package: kmail
Version: 1.1.52
Severity: wishlist

When I reply or forward a message adding my .signature to
the end of the thread is messy and redundant.

Ideally(?) the following options could be presented to the user :

 - Don't automatically add
 - Always automatically add
 - Always add to new messages (but not replies or forwards)
 - Add to new messages and forwards only
 - Insert above rest of message on forwards and replies.

Cheers
Jedd.
Comment 1 Chuck Coxhead 2002-10-01 13:05:44 UTC
Optional signatures work fine, but when used, please add to the top of the 
inline reply text. 
Comment 2 Hrishikesh Mehendale 2003-01-01 06:40:55 UTC
Adding to the above list:

- Add the sig only if it is not contained in any of the Re:s or Fwd:s 
  This comes in handy at the office where the same mail gets Re:d an Fwd:d a lot
of times, and deleting the sig each time is a painful task.

Regards
Hrishikesh
Comment 3 Jedd 2005-01-05 07:28:37 UTC
Wow .. there can't be many four-digit four-year-old KDE bugs left, can there?

(Bwahahahaha)

Ahem.  Anyhoo, this (now that I'm sitting here with kmail 1.7.1 under KDE 3.3.2) bug still exists.  Although it's morphed ever so slightly.

I don't want my signature on forwarded emails, particularly since forwarded emails aren't quoted, and the signature is put at the end -- it ends up making it look like I wrote text that I did not.  This is uncool.

I don't want my signature inserted above someone else's text, either, cos that's just plain ugly.  (Top-posting is a sin, etc -- some of us still grok netiquette.)

If I reply to something addressed specifically to me, my signature appears.  If I reply to something that I got via a mailing list, say, then my signature isn't inserted.  It also seems to vary depending on whether I'm in the inbox, or elsewhere (but that might be a result of the To: addressing).

Gotta love consistency.

It'd be really nice to be able to use Kontact/kmail and reply or forward messages safe in the knowledge that my signature hasn't rudely popped into it somewhere.

Comment 4 Janet 2008-03-25 02:53:57 UTC
If there were a %SIGNATURE command for the templates everybody could define for every kind of mail (new, reply, forward...) where the signature should be placed automatically (or if no signature should be inserted automatically).
Comment 5 Thomas McGuire 2008-03-31 01:10:10 UTC
See also bug 159789.
Comment 6 Jonathan Armond 2009-07-20 15:40:39 UTC
SVN commit 999765 by jarmond:

Implement %SIGNATURE template command to allow customised signature
insertion location.

FEATURE: 6376
FEATURE: 159789

 M  +24 -0     kmail/templateparser.cpp  
 M  +6 -0      kmail/templateparser.h  
 M  +3 -0      kmail/templatesinsertcommand.cpp  
 M  +1 -1      kmail/templatesinsertcommand.h  
 M  +4 -28     libkdepim/kmeditor.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=999765