Hi All,

One of the folk I correspond with frequently uses the Thunderbird
Email Client on his Mac.

If he replies to my emailed message with comments that are inserted
into the body of my message, MailSmith 2.2 (beta 221 and earlier)
fails to show up his comment as a separate paragraph but merely has
the ">>" characters preceding his comment.

This can make it very hard to find his responses in a lengthy message.

Apple Mail, on the other hand, displays the comments in a large red
type with a separate paragraph.

Is there anything I can do in MailSmith to change its behaviour with
interspersed comment?

Thanks in advance,

John Wolff
Hamilton, New Zealand

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On 6/28/09 at 1:38 PM, john@[Protected] (John Wolff) wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>One of the folk I correspond with frequently uses the Thunderbird
>Email Client on his Mac.
>
>If he replies to my emailed message with comments that are inserted
>into the body of my message, MailSmith 2.2 (beta 221 and earlier)
>fails to show up his comment as a separate paragraph but merely has
>the ">>" characters preceding his comment.

That is the correct and standard thing to do.

>This can make it very hard to find his responses in a lengthy message.
>
>Apple Mail, on the other hand, displays the comments in a large red
>type with a separate paragraph.
>
>Is there anything I can do in MailSmith to change its behaviour with
>interspersed comment?

Text email has used '>', '>>', etc for quoting previous messages
for two decades.

Mailsmith provides the ability to set this quoting character
under Preferences -> Replies. You could set your preferences to
use '|', for example, or perhaps '###', which would stand out
quite well.

In addition, under Preferences -> Mail Display -> Color Quoted
Text you can set quoted replies to have distinct colors by
quoting level.

For us crusty old text-only emailers, this is plenty. And if you
think about how many electrons are wasted adding trivial extra
formatting to the world's email, Al Gore and the polar bears
might feel the same... ;-)


- Bruce

_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_


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On 6/29/09 at 11:15 AM, bva@[Protected] (Bruce Van Allen) wrote:

>Mailsmith provides the ability to set this quoting character
>under Preferences -> Replies. You could set your preferences to
>use '|', for example, or perhaps '###', which would stand out
>quite well.

Note that this does not affect the display of incoming mail;
only the character used for quoting text in new messages that
you are composing or replying to. (And I would recommend not
getting too attached to that setting. ">" is a de facto standard
at this point and at some point I intend to remove the GUI for
changing the quote character...)

R.
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Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they
sedate me.


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> On 6/29/09 at 11:15 AM, bva@[Protected] (Bruce Van Allen) wrote:
>
> >Mailsmith provides the ability to set this quoting character
> >under Preferences -> Replies. You could set your preferences to
> >use '|', for example, or perhaps '###', which would stand out
> >quite well.
>
> Note that this does not affect the display of incoming mail;
> only the character used for quoting text in new messages that
> you are composing or replying to. (And I would recommend not
> getting too attached to that setting. ">" is a de facto standard
> at this point and at some point I intend to remove the GUI for
> changing the quote character...)
>
> R.

I concur with the fact that the ">" character is the standard character. That's what I'd use all the time, if I could. I change it sometimes, though, for what I consider to be a very good reason. Unfortunately, some sites now strip out the ">" characters in a message because they are considered by the message handling bots to be evil HTML. A substitute character - say "+" - escapes the bot's wrath. So I hope you will leave the option to change the quote character in place.

Roger

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On 6/29/09 at 9:06 AM, siegel@[Protected] (Rich Siegel) wrote:

>On 6/29/09 at 11:15 AM, bva@[Protected] (Bruce Van Allen) wrote:
>>Mailsmith provides the ability to set this quoting character
>>under Preferences -> Replies. You could set your preferences
>>to use '|', for example, or perhaps '###', which would stand
>>out quite well.

>Note that this does not affect the display of incoming mail;
>only the character used for quoting text in new messages that
>you are composing or replying to. (And I would recommend not
>getting too attached to that setting. ">" is a de facto
>standard at this point and at some point I intend to remove the
>GUI for changing the quote character...)

That's fine with me. I remember being glad to find that MS let
me set that character -- only because some other email client
imposed its own character and wouldn't let me change it back to
what it "should" be.


- Bruce

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