Remove default mail signature

[sspind]

An issue for the same topic was already opened on google code. It boils down to: the default signature is unprofessional, annoying and judging from the top google hits it is also the first thing that people try to get rid when starting to use k9.

[cketti]

Being "professional" is not one of the goals of this project.

If you're bothered by the signatures of your communication partners I'm happy to review pull requests for a feature to hide signatures in mails received.

[sspind]

And annoying it's users is? Don't get me wrong - I am perfectly aware that this is an open source project, done by people in their free time. But does that mean we give a crap about user experience? I would at least 'put it to the vote' and leave the issue open to see what others have to say about it...

[lawsonk]

On March 26, 2015 6:46:17 PM EDT, sspind notifications@github.com wrote:

And annoying it's users is? Don't get me wrong - I am perfectly aware
that this is an open source project, done by people in their free time.
But does that mean we give a crap about user experience? I would at
least 'put it to the vote' and leave the issue open to see what others
have to say about it...

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I'm new to the list so maybe I'm ignorant but what's the issue here? The app allows you to change and/or diasble signatures. How is that a bad user experience?

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[sspind]

The issue is with the default signature which I claim to be unnecessary. It really is just a personal preference - one that I share with quite a few people at least judging from the results you get from googling 'k9 signature'.

[philipwhiuk]

All mobile email clients I think provide the first sentence. "Sent from my iPhone" is the default signature on every iPhone device. My HTC's default signature is 'Sent from a HTC One".

"Please excuse my brevity." is perhaps over kill however.

Maybe we should present the signature configuration during account set-up?

[sspind]

That would be great but also more complicated to implement...