[MlMt] Outlook style reply styling

[Kee Hinckley]

I primarily use MailMate in an Outlook environment.

I'm sure it would be possible to create a css theme that matched 
Outlook's so you'd get a similar look. I've never seen the horizontal 
bar, but as others say, you can add it with `---` (and probably with 
some creative CSS as well). I've gone the other route and tried to style 
mine _better_ than Outlook :).

**Benny**, is it possible to have user-defined themes, or do we still 
need to add them into the app?

If not, you look at 
`/Applications/MailMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/MailMate.mmBundle/Themes` 
and add your own file there with a new UID, then it will show up in the 
Composer preferences.  You'll need to replace it each time you update 
the app.

My biggest issue in dealing with Outlook is that occasionally people try 
to get _around_ the top comment model and edit inline, and when they do, 
they mark their comments as theirs by *coloring* them (and putting their 
initials on them). That's easy enough to read (although they have to put 
something at the top saying "please see my comments inline" or nobody 
looks for them), but because I can't edit the HTML, I can't do the same 
thing in reply. So I tend to top-comment with a little macro to quote 
things.

❝ _I assume that to do this I would need to customize the reply 
styling_ ❞

Like that. Bleh.



On 25 Apr 2018, at 5:50, Verdon Vaillancourt 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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