Ticket #1484272 (new Feature Requests)

Opened 18 months ago

Last modified 12 days ago

Signature above original message on reply

Reported by: HYS Owned by:
Priority: 5 Milestone: later
Component: Client Scripts Version: 0.1-rc1
Severity: normal Keywords: signature
Cc:

Description

Now the signature is placed completely below the body of the message. I'd like to have my signature under my answer and above the original message.

Change History

Changed 18 months ago by crichardson

as far as I know most mail clients do not handle sigs this way.

Changed 18 months ago by jpingle

Not to mention that top-posting is generally frowned upon in terms of netiquette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_styles). But to each their own...

I have seen some mailers that insert the signature at the bottom of a reply, even if it's at the top of the message. Generally, these automatically paste the signature in the message before you start typing, and do not tack it on after you hit 'send'. Usually it's larger corporate-types who like to do this. Why, I don't know. Top-posting screws up the natural flow of discussion.

I propose two additional user preferences:

  1. An option, as in Thunderbird, to place your cursor at the top or bottom of a reply.
  2. An option to either insert the signature before you start composing or on send.

If a person chooses to both top-post and insert the signature before sending, what this particular person wants to do could be accomplished. If the signature is not inserted at the start, there is no way for RC to know where the quoted text really begins, and thus no way to know where to automatically place the signature.

Changed 12 months ago by till

I don't really want to support that.

The "-- " in a signature, makes any good email client remove what's underneath of it. So when you put your signature before the quoted text. You lose it later on in discussion. For me that makes no sense to support.

A signature is supposed to be underneath of it.

Changed 12 months ago by till

  • milestone set to later

Changed 3 months ago by alec

-1 from me

Changed 2 months ago by minusonebit

I too would like to see this implemented (I submitted #1484737 which is apparently a duplicate of this one). I already made my arguments there which I wont rehash here.

There seems to be alot of folks very much against the inclusion of any such options. Too bad Round Cube doesn't support something like plugins or addons as they do in FireFox? or Thunderbird. Then this issue would be a moot point.

So, one vote in favor of this from me. Again.

Changed 12 days ago by smultron

I vote for this too; I'd like to see this option. Perhaps it could be implemented with a warning:

Place reply and signature below quoted text (recommended) or Place reply and signature above quoted text (not-recommended)

At least then there'd be an option for those non-netiquette users, but still shows it's not 'proper'.

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