[pmmail-list] Naive question

[Tim Roberts]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:58:25 -0800, Frank Winkler wrote:
>
>The main thing which is bothering me is the fact that the quote char is 
>hard-coded to "> ", whereas I prefer " >". This is configurable in PMMail 
>and in many other clients but not (yet?) in Thunderbird. The tag "... 
>wrote" is a bit stupid at the moment but will hopefully also get more 
>verbose - like in PMMail.

The tips/tricks page on the Thunderbird web site says the reply header
string is completely customizable in user.js:

--- quoting ---
Change the reply header
The standard reply header [author] wrote: can be changed to virtually
anything, so make your e-mails more personalized. Add and modify the
following code to your user.js file, instructions are in the comments:

// Change the reply header
// 0 - No Reply-Text
// 1 - "[Author] wrote:"
// 2 - "On [date] [author] wrote:"
// 3 - User-defined reply header. Use the prefs below in conjuction with
this:
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3);

// If you set 3 for the pref above then you may set the following prefs.
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s said the following");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "on %s");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_separator", " ");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_colon", ":"); 
// The end result will be [authorwrote][separator][ondate][colon]
--- end quoting ---

This thing is starting to look like a pretty good option to me.

--
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


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