### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tweaking-patterns-in-email-reply-trimmer/70767/1 "2017-09-26T00:19:05Z")
Hey, @gerhard. I’m still doing an import with a bunch of mailing lists sucked in to nabble.
There are a bunch of posts that are announcements and have a line of dashes near the top, so the whole post gets truncated by trim since the line is a delimiter:
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I think I’m just going to edit out those lines for this import and move on with my life.
But is there a better way?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2017, 8:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tweaking-patterns-in-email-reply-trimmer/70767/2 "2017-09-26T08:19:37Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> But is there a better way?
Remove that line before passing the email to the importer?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2017, 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tweaking-patterns-in-email-reply-trimmer/70767/3 "2017-09-26T12:15:49Z")
Well that’s hilariously obvious. 😊
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### Author:  [@PortChange](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PortChange)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 8:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tweaking-patterns-in-email-reply-trimmer/70767/4 "2026-08-06T08:51:31Z")
This has now been fixed, see [FIX: preserve inline replies and image lines when trimming emails - Pull Request #25 - discourse/email\_reply\_trimmer - GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/email_reply_trimmer/pull/25)
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 10:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tweaking-patterns-in-email-reply-trimmer/70767/5 "2026-08-06T10:10:09Z")
9 years later … wow 🙂
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2026, 10:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tweaking-patterns-in-email-reply-trimmer/70767/6 "2026-08-13T10:10:46Z")
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