How to fix Thunderbird's quoting?

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Wed Feb 8 07:32:27 EST 2012


On 02/07/2012 03:09 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> Is there some way to fix Mozilla Thunderbird so that, when composing
> plaintext replies, it *doesn't* condense multiple levels of quoting
> down to ">>> " (with no interleaved spaces)?
>
> I want to just consistently prepend "> " to quoted lines, without
> being `smart'--is there some way of making it do that? *Didn't* it
> previously do that, at some point way back in history? Anyone know?
>
There used to be a way to control quoting. Edit/Preferences/Composition,
but the old quoting tab is missing (at least on T-Bird 10. However there
are a couple of add-ons you could try such as Quote Collapse and Quote
Highlight. I have not tried either of them.

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