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Somewhat related - text emails
Authored by: boblyons on Jul 17, '03 12:17:40PM

I had hoped this hint would fix my own pet peeve, but it did not, as far as I can tell. What I would *really* like is for the Mail.app to *properly* quote the message to which I'm replying. During editing of a reply, Mail places a highlight bar in the left margin next to quoted text. What it actually sends, however, doesn't differentiate at all between quoted lines and new lines ('>' is the most commonly accepted tag for quoted lines). It makes my reply very difficult to read.

Suggestions, anyone? Or am I missing something simple?



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Somewhat related - text emails
Authored by: j-beda on Jul 17, '03 08:46:59PM

I think that this is a "format=flowed" standard way of quoting email. Eudora does this too and I don't like it. In Eudora there is some way of setting the default to be the "old fasioned" way with ">", but I don't reacall how. In Eudora what I do is usually select the offending text and make Eudora line-wrap it, which results in the ">" behaviour I want. I have a Eudora button for this (and one for "unwrap" too - very useful.

In any case, I don't know how to make Mail.app do this.



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