[MlMt] Outlook style reply styling

Verdon Vaillancourt verdonv at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 08:51:45 EDT 2018


So sorry, I meant command-option-apostrophe

That has worked for me on pretty much every mail client I’ve used in 
years.

v


On 26 Apr 2018, at 2:40, Allan Reiffman wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, but if I am understanding correctly, that 
> does
> not seem to work for me. After selecting the reply text (in the 
> editing
> pane), using "command-option-hyphen" just makes the text in that pane
> smaller. Did I misundersand?
>
> Does anyone else have suggestions on how to customtize the reply 
> styling
> (globally, or per account, or per signature) such that the vertical 
> line
> indicating the quoted text is removed, and also adding a faint 
> horizontal
> line under my reply text?
>
> Having this ability would allow me to actually use Mailmate to reply 
> to
> messages.  Currently I use Mailmate just for reading and processing
> incoming mail, and also for its great search functionality, but end up
> using Outlook for replying so as to maintain a consistent format in 
> the
> reply conversation.  :)
>
> Thanks,
> -Allan
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Verdon Vaillancourt 
> <verdonv at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ultimately, the problem is the non-standard behaviour of Outlook. I 
>> hate
>> getting mail from something like that, finding it nearly impossible 
>> to read
>> and track long conversations.
>>
>> …anyways… I don’t know about a global solution, but you could 
>> select the
>> indented reply text and use the key-command “cmd-opt-‘“
>> (command-option-hyphen) to remove the quoting.
>>
>> v
>>
>>
>> On 25 Apr 2018, at 3:48, Allan Reiffman wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> How can I have the vertical "reply" line be removed from the reply 
>>> to a
>>> message?
>>>
>>> How can I add a horizontal line to the bottom of my reply?
>>>
>>> For better or worse the company where I work uses Outlook, and in a 
>>> given
>>> email conversation thread the replies are simply stacked one on top 
>>> of the
>>> other with no reply indicator or indentation, with each message 
>>> being
>>> separated by a faint horizontal line.  I would like my replies from
>>> Mailmate to be consistent with this format.
>>>
>>> I assume that to do this I would need to customize the reply styling 
>>> - is
>>> there a guideline or any documentation on how to do this (in 
>>> general), and
>>> / or specifically what I would need to modify to achieve the above?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Allan
>>>
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