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I still sign off with two-dashes-space [Return] Name. Depending on your mailer, it should result in a signoff that doesn't get included if you hit Reply. "Name"

I still sign off with two-dashes-space [Return] Name. Depending on your mailer, it should result in a signoff that doesn't get included if you hit Reply. "Name" might include the full multiline sig, but I've always deplored multiline sigs. Depending on who I'm writing to, I might precede the sig (or the name) with some expression of goodwill, such as "Love" for my kids, or something more formal like "Best regards" for others. The best signoff for a two-line email, of course, is an "Unsubscribe" link and 6 paragraphs of unenforceable and nonsensical legalese.

m3nu 5y ago
> Depending on your mailer, it should result in a signoff that doesn't get included if you hit Reply. Not in Apple Mail or Roundcube webmail from what I see. :-( Is this a standard?
- akvadrako 5y ago
  It's an informal standard going back a long way. See for example RFC 3676, 4.3. Usenet Signature Convention There is a long-standing convention in Usenet news which also commonly appears in Internet mail of using "-- " as the separator line between the body and the signature of a message. When generating a Format=Flowed message containing a Usenet-style separator before the signature, the separator line is sent as-is. This is a special case; an (optionally quoted or quoted and stuffed) line consisting of DASH DASH SP is neither fixed nor flowed. Generating agents MUST NOT end a paragraph with such a signature line. A receiving agent needs to test for a signature line both before the test for a quoted line (see Section 4.5) and also after logically counting and deleting quote marks and stuffing (see Section 4.4) from a quoted line. * https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt
thom 5y ago
This is all I’ve ever done. Every other convention has always seemed at best quite fake, and at worst like you’re someone’s grandad sending email for the first time.
- denton-scratch 5y ago
  I have recently received business email from France, that signed off with "Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, l'expression de mes salutations les plus respectueux" (Please be so good as to accept, Sir, the expression of my most respectful greetings). That's a pretty traditional French signoff, but I gather it's finally passing out of fashion now. About time.

m3nu 5y ago

> Depending on your mailer, it should result in a signoff that doesn't get included if you hit Reply. Not in Apple Mail or Roundcube webmail from what I see. :-( Is this a standard?

akvadrako 5y ago
It's an informal standard going back a long way. See for example RFC 3676, 4.3. Usenet Signature Convention There is a long-standing convention in Usenet news which also commonly appears in Internet mail of using "-- " as the separator line between the body and the signature of a message. When generating a Format=Flowed message containing a Usenet-style separator before the signature, the separator line is sent as-is. This is a special case; an (optionally quoted or quoted and stuffed) line consisting of DASH DASH SP is neither fixed nor flowed. Generating agents MUST NOT end a paragraph with such a signature line. A receiving agent needs to test for a signature line both before the test for a quoted line (see Section 4.5) and also after logically counting and deleting quote marks and stuffing (see Section 4.4) from a quoted line. * https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt

thom 5y ago

This is all I’ve ever done. Every other convention has always seemed at best quite fake, and at worst like you’re someone’s grandad sending email for the first time.

denton-scratch 5y ago
I have recently received business email from France, that signed off with "Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, l'expression de mes salutations les plus respectueux" (Please be so good as to accept, Sir, the expression of my most respectful greetings). That's a pretty traditional French signoff, but I gather it's finally passing out of fashion now. About time.