[imp] Signature

[Ralf Lang]

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> NO MUA THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN "GUARANTEES" THAT WHAT YOU "SEE" IN
> THE COMPOSE WINDOW IS ACTUALLY WHAT IS SENT OUT.
Haven't seen such either.

> An admin can add a trailer to every message which cannot be altered
> by the user and will never be seen by the user (which IMP allows).

I think the footer is a pretty old IMP feature. Many commercial
"freemailers" add "sent with" footers for advertisement. Companies add
legalese stuff (often nonsense). Just a minute ago somebody had a
footer "sent with ASUS Pad". It happens all the time.

I understand the arguments for and against showing/editing signatures.
Still I do not find it very intuitive and when H5 goes into production
this month, I am sure users will ask for patches to at least see the
signature.

> The simple fact with signatures IS THAT THE **USER** IS THE ONE
> THAT ADDED THE SIGNATURE DATA IN THE FIRST PLACE.  This is not the
> case of someone "altering" a message or "adding" data without the
> user's consent.  For a signature to be added to a message, the user
> necessarily needed to create the data at one point.  Nothing is
> being "added" or "altered" to the message that the user has not
> already tacitly approved.

Well, not quite, not in all setups. In production, we provide three
default profiles with predefined addresses and signatures. Most user
use these and never defined them. They are free to add more
identities, but they cannot change the default identities.

I think your main idea in previous discussions was "use
templates/drafts, not identities/signatures". I'll try that. Let's see
how it works out and disarm a little bit. Let's not play Lennart.


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Ralf Lang
Linux Consultant / Developer
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Mail: lang at b1-systems.de
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