[Bug 150540] New: mail signatures accumulate with long mail thread

[Markus Mechtel]

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           Summary: mail signatures accumulate with long mail thread
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: spinflip web de


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

Many of my collegues (including myself) have a long mail signature containing their complete address and contact information, which sometimes is up to 10 lines long. With each reply, another copy of a signature is appended to the mail and the list of signatures gets longer and longer. In a long mail thread with many replies, these mail signatures accumulate, such that the whole mail mainly consists of signatures instead of real messages.
Such a mail thread would be easier to read, if there were only a limited number of signatures. At least, the composer could analyse the previous mail, which is to be quoted. If the composer wants to append a signature and this same signature is already present in the mail, then this old signature could be deleted and the new one appended to the end of the mail, just as usual.