[MlMt] Outlook style reply styling

[Allan Reiffman]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:54 PM, Kee Hinckley <kee at hinckley.com> wrote:

> 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 :).
>
Thanks, this is very interesting.  I would be interested in seeing your
results of this if you would care to share.


> *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.
>

Yeah, I do this as well.  :)


> 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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