Interviewed by CNN on 31/10/2013 18:04, hawker told the world: > My office has mandated we all have a consistent signature line. > Of course those who made the claim are on a Mac and using a totally > different e-mail client than I. > > I have some HTML pasted in my signature line for that profile. > > Can someone tell me how I can do the following: > 1) Remove the -- that occurs before the signature line?
As WaltS has already explained (I'm quoting him), you have just to set "mail.identity.default.suppress_signature_separator" to true in about:config. Some discussion is in order, though, so you are aware of exactly what is this separator (which is actualll "-- ", that is, two dashes followed by a blank space) so you are better armed in any business-space confrontation about it. That is, if someone criticizes you for taking too long to remove it, you can quote the technical documentation to them and make them sound like idiots. The "-- " is a very old convention for separating sig blocks, which appears to have originated in the USENET but made its way to Internet e-mail. It's purpose is to make it easier for software to identify the sig block. Why? Well, because in environments favoring bottom-posting (like the Usenet, these Mozilla-related newsgroups, and many mailing lists), auto-stripping the signature from the quoted text when answering is a very desirable feature. So many e-mail / news clients include this feature, and insert the separator automatically. Note that a specific RFC regarding the "-- " separator does not seem to exist, but RFC 3676 (which actually is about format=flowed) does document the practice and considers it important enough to require a specific workaround for it, so it's a sort of "informal standard." Business environments, however, tend to prefer top-posting instead of bottom-posting. Bottom-posting has conciseness and clarity (by quoting just the necessary parts of the original message right above the answer) as a goal; top-posting, on the other hand, has as a goal providing a full copy of the original mail for ease of consultation and documentation of the whole conversation, so it usually keeps the original message (including signatures and attachments) in its entirety. Long back-and-forth conversations between top-posters can generate really big messages, but business users don't seem to care. So, in the business context, yeah, the "-- " does not seem to make sense. But if your company is that uptight about mail formatting, you probably should change the answering style for the account to bottom-posting (Account Settings / Composition and Addressing). > 2) Prevent Seamonky from making the signature lighter than the requested > font color? Actually, that is only a display option; that is, it only affects messages when you are reading them, and even then only if the message includes the "-- " separator. Outgoing message signatures are not actually formatted as light gray, so you don't have to worry about that. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my IBM PC-XT. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.22 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
