[Lancaster] Help needed with email formating

[Ken Hough]

Andy, Jonathon, Martyn,

Thanks for helpful replies to my question. I've passed them on to my poor 
Windows using friend. Perhaps he'll begin to realise that open source (ie non 
Microsoft) is the way to go.

Who knows? It really is amazing how hard most folks still find it to believe 
that there could possibly be a better way to go than using MS Windows  --  
even when they are shown something like a working Ubuntu system.

For example, my neighbor continues to complain about how slow his XP box is 
now running and how he will have to buy a new PC. I've helped him to sort out 
the inevitable problems with this on a number of occasions, but can I get him 
to try Ubuntu (even running live)  --- not a chance! Not even if I can save 
him the cost of a new PC!

I do my best, but....as everybody knows "I'm a PC" = MS Windows.

Regards

Ken Hough 

On Wednesday 06 June 2012 10:47:45 Martyn Welch wrote:
> It's the client that inserts them, Thunderbird still does if the
> message is setup as text rather than HTML. Are they using outlook? Get
> forced to use that piece of junk for some work stuff.
> 
> If so there is an option in the settings to add a prefix. Since
> Microsoft have decided to screw around with their interface in the
> release I now have to use, I doubt I can provide any useful
> information beyond click on whatever button you need to click on to
> start writing a new message and got to the options for that.
> 
> Hope that helps a little.
> 
> Martyn
> 
> On 6 June 2012 09:11, andy baxter <andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> > The only thing I know that might be relevant is that Thunderbird keeps
> > the '>' characters internally (e.g. in view source), but displays them
> > as a coloured vertical bar. I had a quick look and can't find an option
> > to change this.
> > 
> > andy
> > 
> > On 06/06/12 09:00, Ken Hough wrote:
> >> I'm sure that some of you "professional" IT people will be able to help
> >> me with a problem that a couple of my friends have wrt with their email
> >> clients/or email systems.
> >> 
> >> Email clients that I have used always inserted ">" to mark all lines of
> >> text
> >> from included previous messages. This was/is done by default. No
> >> problem!
> >> 
> >> Without these additions, message threads can become very confusing to
> >> read.
> >> 
> >> The email clients/systems of two of my friends do not insert ">"
> >> characters.
> >> These guys are both Microsoft users, but this doesn't appear to be
> >> 'normal'
> >> Microsoft behavior.
> >> 
> >> Where in email clients/systems does this insertion normally occur and
> >> how can
> >> this be enabled/disabled?
> >> 
> >> Ken Hough
> >> Kendal
> >> Cumbria
> >> UK
> >> 
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