On Aug 29, Michael Herman [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > At work, I use Linux and have been using Mutt and Sylpheed. > Yesterday, my boss complained about the format of my e-mails. So to > make him happy, I have developed an attribution string that mimics > Outlook.
Yes, I have to do the same. :( > folder-hook $HOME/Mail/Mail-Work/* 'set attribution="\n\n-----Original > Message-----\nFrom: %f\nSent: %d\n%t\nSubject: %s\n\n"' Heh. Good idea with the \n's; I've been using some more arcane stuff to get something not quite as good. Forgot newlines would just work. :P > This works fine but I have noticed something and I'm not sure how to > fix it. Instead of a > or |, Outlook indents earlier sections of the > mail. Mutt has a way of knowing this using quote_regexp. The problem > is, when I read a reply, the latest reply (which is at the top, thank > you Microsoft)is left justified but earlier replies which would be indented > in Outlook have > as the quote character. When I reply to these, it > leaves the > instead of the tab. This probably isn't mutt, since mutt doesn't rewrite mail like that. Outlook's reply "style", such as it is, is configurable. Users can do the indent thing or a > thing or a combination. It's likely the person sending you the mails you're noticing this in is just using that as their reply setting.
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