Strip the last line created by email clients before posting

[r-a-y]

When people reply by email via their preferred email client, a "USER wrote:" line (or variations of this string that include the timestamp or different verbiage) will be prepended to the "--- Reply ABOVE THIS LINE to add a comment ---" line.

Most people will not remove this line when replying. Hence this "USER wrote:" string will also be posted.

Perhaps do a regex match for this line and strip it before posting. We'll also have to look out for localized email clients as well.

Note: Basecamp, which this plugin is modelled after, does not do this.

---

Perhaps we can just search the last line and last character to see if a colon exists. If it does, strip the line?

[boonebgorges]

A couple of thoughts off the top of my head...

• Maybe this should be done by means of an output filter, so that the
  content is saved in the database but stripped on the way out. That way
  if the regex is too greedy, nothing important is lost.
• One possible way around the problem of localization etc is looking for
  colons. That is, only strip the last line if it ends with a colon. May
  not work across all languages and clients, but I bet it's pretty close
• A future enhancement may involve an admin setting that allows users to
  enter individual lines of regex (or maybe some other pattern replacement
  syntax) for specific patters they want to remove
• In the end, having some regex that tries to be smart about this is not
  going to be too harmful, as long as it's written to be non-greedy. The
  worst that will happen is that the "In reply to..." line will leak
  through, which is not the end of the world.

On 4/19/12 5:28 PM, r-a-y wrote:

When people reply by email via their preferred email client, a "USER wrote:" line (or variations of this string that include the timestamp or different verbiage) will be prepended to the "--- Reply ABOVE THIS LINE to add a comment ---" line.

Most people will not remove this line when replying. Hence this "USER wrote:" string will also be posted.

Perhaps do a regex match for this line and strip it before posting. We'll have to look out for localized email clients as well.

Note: Basecamp, which this plugin is modelled after, does not do this.

---

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
#6

[r-a-y]

I had the exact same idea with the colon! In fact, I had edited the original issue with this point before you posted about it! ;)

[r-a-y]

Commit f492856 overhauls email signature stripping.

Closing for now.

[r-a-y]

Also see commit 4792e87 for additional email sig tweaking.