All the stuff up to the [...] (above) is unnecessary. We know the
subject, the sending date and the To address from the headers, and we
know who you're replying to (me in this case) because it's stated below
after the date of the message being replied to.
The quoting style I'm using here, and which most people on the list
follow, is more succinct and less liable to confusion.
Thanks Patrick, the information at the top of the mail is inserted by
Thunderbird itself which it has always done.
I think a lot of people here use TBird, though I use Evolution myself,
but yours is the only one (at least in recent memory) that behaves this
way.
I'm using the upstream Daily version of Thunderbird, which I have always
used, even as far back as when I was sharing my local copy mail
environment between Windows and Fedora, and I don't remember Thunderbird
ever not quoting the details of who the reply to was at the top of the
email.
From what I can see there is no configuration options in Thunderbird to
toggle this functionality.
As you have said with your emails it is obvious who is being replied to,
as I see your name in the from data displayed in the inbox and you have
your initials in the signature.
The issue I have with a lot of the emails in the list is the from data
shows as "Community support for Fedora Users" (as my mails do when I see
them, which seems to have surfaced since moving to Gmail as my mail
system) and there is no signature shown, so the only way to know who is
actually being responded to is the info at the top which I tend to
leave, but if it is annoying to people then I can remove it.
Are you sure? What I see is a From: line showing the poster's name, and
a To: line with the list address ("Community support" etc.)
Yes. If I look at the first mail in this thread from Michael, the "From"
and To in the mail headers as shown by Thunderbird at the top of the
preview window I use both show as "Community Support", which marries up
with the Correspondents column in my inbox which indicates the mail came
from "Community Support", but with your email that I'm replying to, the
"From" header identifies you and the To is "Community Support". I've
also noticed that with mails I send both the "From" and the To show as
"Community Support", which seems to have only happened since moving from
the email address supplied to me by my ISP to using a Gmail address.
The signature is put there by the user (in some cases because they've
configured their MUA to do it for them).
This bit I understood, but the issue I have is that for a lot of the
emails I look a signature is not being presented, so when the "From" and
To are both "Community Support" I have no idea who the mail is from
until I do a reply.BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:4.0
N:Morris;Stephen;;;
FN:Steve
NICKNAME:Steve
EMAIL;PREF=1;TYPE=home:[email protected]
TZ:Australia/Melbourne
END:VCARD
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