Signature separator in email body

[czeidler]

Got the case were somebody used this separator in the email body to split the mail into sections:

/^________________________________$/

The mail also didn't had an actual signature, it looked like:

Section 1
________________________________

Section 2
________________________________

Section 3
________________________________

Section 4

On 24/03/25 10:55, Me wrote:
...

The reply parser returns only "Section 1".

Some ideas (but really not sure how to best handle this):

• You could only cut off after the last signature separator but then you still lose "Section 4"
• If there are multiple signature separators don't remove them at all (but then you still miss the case where there is only one signature separator)
• Require a max number of lines/chars to recognize a signature, e.g. if "Section 4" is too long don't tread it as a signature.

[obedparla]

We have this exact same issue. Some responders such as Zoopa will send an email separating sections using ---. Likely caused by this line: https://github.com/crisp-oss/email-reply-parser/blob/master/lib/regex.ts#L70

An option to disable these type of separators would fix both of our issues