I am using thunderbird as my email client and i use a signature to all my outgoing mails. How ever i can see the -- (double dash) which prepends to my signature. Is it possible to avoid the double dash -- ?
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11You shouldn't avoid it, as it's an Internet standard designed to enable email programs to recognise signatures and deal with them appropriately.– Mike ScottMay 2, 2011 at 7:21
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2Lol i know that, i just want to avoid that double dash.– karthick87May 2, 2011 at 7:43
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1Who cares that it's an internet standard. It's annoying. I'm getting rid of it. Thanks, +1 for the q n a– uɥƃnɐʌuopJan 2, 2013 at 10:25
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There are standards on the internet now?– NomicJun 17, 2014 at 11:52
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4It is not an Internet Standard though. The relevant text in RFC 3676 in particular makes no such requirement. What it does is to note a "long-standing convention" and enable the continued use of that convention by defining certain rules for a document of MIME type "text/plain;Format=Flowed". In fact Thunderbird does not even produce documents of that type.– ajm475duSep 12, 2014 at 15:51
2 Answers
Open the Config Editor: Either Tools -> Options or Edit -> Preferences
Go to Advanced -> General -> Config Editor
Then search for mail.identity.default.suppress_signature_separator
and set it to TRUE by double-clicking it.
Now all new emails are created without the --
before the signature.
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1It works ! BTW, is it possible to remove also empty blank lines before the signature ? Dec 8, 2014 at 11:44
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2Note that if there are multiple identities there will be separate setting for each e.g.
mail.identity.id1.suppress_signature_separator
,mail.identity.id2.suppress_signature_separator
etc. Sep 21, 2015 at 2:06
I researched this recently and found that they will provide a checkbox in either v3.2 or v3.3 to allow users to elect not to show those dashes. Wait.
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I tried this but it doesn't really work. The separator will still be inserted when I create a new mail. Even a restart of TB didn't help. Does anybody know why this doesn't work?– user33533Nov 12, 2011 at 11:32