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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / February 2007Plain text and ">" Reply-characters
Been using Mac Eudora for c.15 years. Just moved to 6.2.4. I like to use Plain Text for all messages. Ours is a predominantly Outlook Exchange institution, so naturally I receive dozens of rich-text (or worse) messages. When I reply to these, I would like the quoted text to have ">" prefixed and for the whole message to become plain text. I'm sure that this *used* to happen with 6.2.3 and previous, but it doesn't seem to happen in 6.2.4: either I get the deadly "|" prefixes (and have to specify "BOTH" in the reply-to option dialog), or I get nothing. Further, when I look at my own replies across in Exchange (I can hop platforms), a message sent as "BOTH" has lost the "|" as well, so I'm getting the worst of both worlds. Am I missing something? Or -- a possibility -- have I in fact always missed this, and just not been aware of it? (as you know: once you've been using an application for a while, there's a million things that you just take for granted and don't think about.) Hope someone can advise on this: I am a Plain-Text-and-">" man. Cheers John Law Newcastle University UK [[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]] > Been using Mac Eudora for c.15 years. Just moved to 6.2.4. > > I like to use Plain Text for all messages. I do also. I have been lurking on this thread awaiting replies for my own use. > Ours is a predominantly > Outlook Exchange institution, so naturally I receive dozens of rich-text [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > (and have to specify "BOTH" in the reply-to option dialog), or I get > nothing. I get the deadly "|". I do not get nothing. Note that I have fiddled with x settings (e.g. <x-eudora-setting:260=31>) in an attempt to solve this problem and my Eudora 6.2.4 is not at default settings in this area. See also http://joeclark.org/ffaq.html > Further, when I look at my own replies across in Exchange (I can hop > platforms), a message sent as "BOTH" has lost the "|" as well, so I'm [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Hope someone can advise on this: I am a Plain-Text-and-">" man. I will note that email that I get is mostly plain text, in fact when I went looking for an email with styled text I couldn't find one. One came in this morning so I was able to use it as an test case. What I do is use key commands to convert the reply. Command R (reply), Command shift option T, (convert to plain text), Command X (cut all), command option V (paste all as quote). (I just did a test. It looks like all the key commands above are simply to have Eudora render the > rather than | on one's draft, something I sometimes want. Sending the email without the key commands above gave me the > on receipt even though the | showed on the draft reply. This is when checking the send "Plain", and with 260=31) This approach works for me because I only get the rare styled email I have to reply to. Still looking for a more elegant solution. This is a confusing subject. I don't have sufficient time at the moment to make the above comments as clear as they should be but hopefully they will give you a lead. Cheers, Darrell  SignatureTo reply, substitute .net for .invalid in address, i.e., darrell.usenet6 (at) telus.net > This approach works for me because I only get the rare styled email I > have to reply to. Still looking for a more elegant solution. <x-eudora-setting:283=y> All quoted text in a reply will have style information removed and then hard wrapped. Qualcomm does not recommend using this setting since it breaks format=flowed. SignatureJulian Y. Koh <mailto:kohster@northwestern.edu> Network Engineer <phone:847-467-5780> Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern University PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> [[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]] > <x-eudora-setting:283=y> > > All quoted text in a reply will have style information removed and then hard > wrapped. Qualcomm does not recommend using this setting since it breaks > format=flowed. Hmmm. Interesting. That may be useful. The "hard wrapped" put me off at first but option Edit - Unwrap appears to work fine. I'll try that for a while. Thank you. Cheers, Darrell SignatureTo reply, substitute .net for .invalid in address, i.e., darrell.usenet6 (at) telus.net |
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