I am writing to express my concern about a missing feature in Proton Mail that I consider essential for professional email use: the ability to include an email signature only in new messages, while automatically omitting it in replies and forwards.
This is standard functionality in virtually every major email client — including Outlook, Thunderbird, and Gmail — and its absence in Proton Mail forces users to manually delete their signature on every reply, which is both inefficient and easy to forget.
A signature in a reply thread serves little purpose and adds unnecessary clutter, especially in ongoing conversations. The ability to control this behavior per message type (new compose vs. reply/forward) is not a luxury — it is a basic expectation of a professional email service.
What makes this particularly hard to understand is that the signature feature itself already exists and works well. Implementing a simple toggle to disable it for replies and forwards should not require significant development effort — it is essentially adding an on/off switch to functionality that is already in place.
I understand this has been requested by other users on your feedback platform and I would like to add my voice to that request. I strongly encourage the Proton Mail team to prioritize this feature in an upcoming release.
Richard
Dear Proton Mail Team,
I am writing to express my concern about a missing feature in Proton Mail that I consider essential for professional email use: the ability to include an email signature only in new messages, while automatically omitting it in replies and forwards.
This is standard functionality in virtually every major email client — including Outlook, Thunderbird, and Gmail — and its absence in Proton Mail forces users to manually delete their signature on every reply, which is both inefficient and easy to forget.
A signature in a reply thread serves little purpose and adds unnecessary clutter, especially in ongoing conversations. The ability to control this behavior per message type (new compose vs. reply/forward) is not a luxury — it is a basic expectation of a professional email service.
What makes this particularly hard to understand is that the signature feature itself already exists and works well. Implementing a simple toggle to disable it for replies and forwards should not require significant development effort — it is essentially adding an on/off switch to functionality that is already in place.
I understand this has been requested by other users on your feedback platform and I would like to add my voice to that request. I strongly encourage the Proton Mail team to prioritize this feature in an upcoming release.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Kind regards,
Richard