Add option to use outlook style reply/forward message headers
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)
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(Reporter: cnmicha, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
Reply or forward an email.
Actual results:
Thunderbird will add a "On [date], [name] wrote:". Below when composing HTML email, Thunderbird adds the message you are replying to or forwarding and a blue bar on the left side, to indicate that the text is a quote. When composing a plain text email, Thunderbird adds ">" characters before each line.
Expected results:
The user should be given an option inside the preferences to alternatively use the Microsoft Outlook style reply design, which is the de-facto standard in business communication.
This means no "On [date], [name] wrote:", no blue bar or ">" characters on the left side. When composing HTML messages, Outlook adds a horizontal line and states some information like sender, subject and date below. When composing plain text messages, I believe Outlook inserts some "====" characters as a separator instead of the horizontal line.
You can copy the HTML styling from a message sent by Outlook.
There is an addon aiming to provide a similar functionality, however it does not seem to be actively maintained. Maybe we can integrate the functionality directly into Thunderbird?
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/replywithheader/
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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Bug 67089 for the headers. No intention of not quoting the original.
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