Problem with Indentation of quoted text

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alh84001

Hello.

I just started using Windows Mail and got a little problem.

When I reply to my mail messages the text doesn't get indented and prefixed
with the ">" character. When I reply to usenet messages it seems fine. It is
a Gmail account.

The settings in Tools -> Options -> Send are as following:
Include message in reply: checked
Reply to messages...: UNchecked
Mail Sending Format: Plain Text
Plain Text Settings -> Indent the original....: Checked

Anybody else experiencing this?
 
alh84001 said:
Hello.

I just started using Windows Mail and got a little problem.

When I reply to my mail messages the text doesn't get indented and prefixed
with the ">" character. When I reply to usenet messages it seems fine. It is
a Gmail account.

The settings in Tools -> Options -> Send are as following:
Include message in reply: checked
Reply to messages...: UNchecked
Mail Sending Format: Plain Text
Plain Text Settings -> Indent the original....: Checked

Anybody else experiencing this?
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Are you experiencing the lack of indenting with all replies?
I see it only if the message I'm replying to was in Quoted Printable
(flowed) format, or HTML. OE has always been this way.
 
Are you experiencing the lack of indenting with all replies?
I see it only if the message I'm replying to was in Quoted Printable
(flowed) format, or HTML. OE has always been this way.
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I never looked into why it was happening to me, but it looks like it IS the
HTML messages.
Instead of the >> I get that blasted black line which I sometimes can't
remove. There's no
way to stop it from doing that?

Jim
 
Jimvee said:
I never looked into why it was happening to me, but it looks like it IS the
HTML messages.
Instead of the >> I get that blasted black line which I sometimes can't
remove. There's no
way to stop it from doing that?
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Fortunately, WinMail like OE has a method to exorcise the HTML demon. ;-)
Tools, Options, Send, uncheck "Reply to messages using the format in
which they were sent."
 
The black line is HTML indentation. Go to Tools | Options | Send | HTML
Settings and uncheck the option to indent messages on reply.

Or in the reply, click on the button that says "Decrease Indent" on the
formatting toolbar to the right of the font size and stuff.

steve
 
I believe the OP has his WinMail configured for sending Plain Text.

Gary VanderMolen
 
I never looked into why it was happening to me, but it looks like it IS
the HTML messages.
Instead of the >> I get that blasted black line which I sometimes can't
remove.
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If he gets a black line, then its HTML.

steve
 
Gary VanderMolen said:
Are you experiencing the lack of indenting with all replies?
I see it only if the message I'm replying to was in Quoted Printable
(flowed) format, or HTML. OE has always been this way.
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I'm aware of the issue with the HTML messages, but it is also happening with
the plain text ones. Maybe it is because of the quoted printable format, but
(and excuse my n00biness) how do I check if a recieved message is in QP?


P.S. That's got to be it....I now received another plain text message and
the behaviour when replying is as expected.
 
Yes, but there's a difference between being configured to

a) always send mail in HTML, or
b) display HTML in received messages, or
c) respond to messages in the same format in which they were sent.

Gary VanderMolen
 
alh84001 said:
I'm aware of the issue with the HTML messages, but it is also happening with
the plain text ones. Maybe it is because of the quoted printable format, but
(and excuse my n00biness) how do I check if a recieved message is in QP?


P.S. That's got to be it....I now received another plain text message and
the behaviour when replying is as expected.
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To see if the received message used QP, look at the headers (Ctrl F3).
It will say Quoted Printable, or sometimes "flowed". To me it is strange
that OE/WinMail can't indent when replying to that format, because
competing mail programs like Thunderbird have no problem with it.
 
alh84001 said:
Yes. Hate the HTML.
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I receive a lot of professionally done email from companies I do
business with, and those look fine with HTML.
But the privately done HTML emails usually look like crap, and
are so annoying and amateurish that they distract from what the
message is trying to convey.
 
Gary VanderMolen said:
To see if the received message used QP, look at the headers (Ctrl F3).
It will say Quoted Printable, or sometimes "flowed". To me it is strange
that OE/WinMail can't indent when replying to that format, because
competing mail programs like Thunderbird have no problem with it.
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It says: "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable"
Thanks very much for clarifing all this.
Well it doesn't bother me that much. I don't use emails much. If I did I
wouldn't be using WinMail in the first place :)
 
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