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Wo archive tread sia. Meɖekuku bia biabia yeye ne ehia kpeɖeŋu.

Can I change my included message header?

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Mark Foley
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Two related questions: 1) When someone replies to my message I get the header of the original message in the format:

On mm/dd/yyyy hh:MM PM, Joe Blow wrote:

Followed by my message body with '>' at the beginning of each line. With Outlook, I got (and my users are used to getting) 

 -----Original Message---
 From:
 To:
 Sent:
 Subject:

message body

Is there any way to alter the "On [date]" format in Thunderbird to give the From, To, etc. information?

2) Is there a way to NOT put the '>' in front of each line in the include message?

Two related questions: 1) When someone replies to my message I get the header of the original message in the format: On mm/dd/yyyy hh:MM PM, Joe Blow wrote: Followed by my message body with '>' at the beginning of each line. With Outlook, I got (and my users are used to getting) -----Original Message--- From: To: Sent: Subject: message body Is there any way to alter the "On [date]" format in Thunderbird to give the From, To, etc. information? 2) Is there a way to NOT put the '>' in front of each line in the include message?

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Zenos
Zenos
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I think you need one of two addons (I can never remember which does what) or possibly both.

https://freeshell.de/~kaosmos/quoteandcomposemanager-en.html https://freeshell.de/~kaosmos/changequote-en.html

There are standards (RFCs) and conventions (nettiquette) in email which Thunderbird respects. These add-ons will make Thunderbird behave more like a non-compliant Microsoft email client.  ;-)

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