Signatures are included in quotes when replying
Open
Nobody has claimed this yet.
1. to develop
bug
feature parity
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 1k
- Forks
- 348
- Avg merge
- 12h 28m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 91
Description
Expected behavior
The “dash dash space” delimiter should be recognised in a message and the signature below it should be cut off when inserting a quote of the original message into the composition window for a reply.
Actual behavior
Signatures appear in quoted messages.
Mail app
Mail app version: 1.9.4
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing a reply using a message containing the “dash dash space” signature delimiter, then trace the quote insertion path in the Mail app’s composition window. Done means the signature and everything below the delimiter are omitted from the quoted original message.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100