On 22 January 2014 23:23, Niall Douglas
On 22 Jan 2014 at 22:13, Fletcher, John P wrote:
Ideally what I want to do is to switch between the styles so that only my Boost and related work is in quoted style.
Here's what I did while I was working for my former employer and was posting to this list using the corporate email client:
1. Tell Outlook to only ever show Plain Text email.
This works.
2. Tell Outlook to only ever quote using indented >'s with a wrap of 74? Whatever it defaults to for wrapping was correct anyway.
This works.
Both of those options are buried in the menus. One of them may have been in default message options or something. On the ribbon in a compose email box, there is a button for message options which lets you override for that email.
Yes, on Ribbon -> File -> Options -> Mail.
But, one little-big problem remains, even in Outlook 2010:
how do you configure preamble to message quotation
so it looks properly in the standard format of "John Smith wrote:", like here:
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On 22 January 2014 23:23, Niall Douglas
On 22 Jan 2014 at 22:13, Fletcher, John P wrote:
""" Even with your suggested configuration, Outlook always uses forward-like format: """
-----Original Message----- From: Niall Douglas Sent: 22 January 2014 23:23 To: Fletcher, John P Subject: ...
""" I do use Outlook daily and I confirm using it for mailing lists is a large PITA, so I'm compassionate to John. What I do is, use GMail or Thunderbird, both can talk to external servers via IMAP. Best regards, -- Mateusz Łoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net