Questmail, replying question

[Evoir]

Hi,

When I'm using Questmail and I reply to a message, it automatically includes the previous text in the new message, but it does not give the handy-dandy date and time when replying. Here's an example of what I mean:

-------it does not give this part

> From: someone@example.com
> Date: June 28, 2005 10:12:26 AM PDT
> To: someone@example2.com
> Subject: Re: Subject at hand

-------it does give this part
>
>
> Hi.
> *rest of replied to message goes here
> *
>
>

Is there a setting to change to have it include who and what I am replying to, in addition to the message I am replying to?

Thanks!

[Evoir]

Wait, maybe "reply" never does that. hmmmm. I just checked my regular email program, and the only way I can get the desired effect is by *forwarding* the email. Oy.....

[Bob]

I was just about to post that I don't remember that being a normal email reply appearance ;)

-Bob

[kitchin]

"At 03:59 PM 6/28/2005, you wrote:"
says Eudora.

[sheila]

As far as I can recall, all of the email clients that I have used (Agent, Pegasus, Mulberry, Poco Mail et. al.) have contained an option--if not the default--to provide date and time of original email when sending a reply. In some clients it is in the advanced configuration options.

It looks to me like QuestMail has this option. After logging in, if you click on:
Options > Personal Information

There is an option on that page that says "Reply Citations"
Default appears to be "No Citation".
It looks like you want the "on DATE, AUTHOR said" option?

(Tip: You might also want to set your time zone on that page, as well...)

:yeah:

[Randall]

As far as I can recall, all of the email clients that I have used (Agent, Pegasus, Mulberry, Poco Mail et. al.) have contained an option--if not the default--to provide date and time of original email when sending a reply. In some clients it is in the advanced configuration options. In Mozilla/Thunderbird it's still a very advanced option. You have to add a few lines to the user.js file (http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file), which doesn't even exist by default.

In case anyone's curious, :wink: mine looks like this: // Change the reply header

// 0 - No Reply-Text
// 1 - "[Author] wrote:"
// 2 - "On [date] [author] wrote:"
// 3 - User-defined reply header

user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3);

// If you set 3 for the pref above then you may
// set the following prefs.

user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s wrote");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "on %s");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_separator", " ");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_colon", ":");

// The end result will be [authorwrote][separator][ondate][colon] I think there are a couple more parameters that I don't use.

Randall

[sheila]

In Mozilla/Thunderbird it's still a very advanced option.
:shocked:

I hope they aren't at the 1.0 release yet, in that case.

[Randall]

I hope they aren't at the 1.0 release yet, in that case. 1.0.2, actually (or 1.7.8 in the case of Mozilla SeaMonkey). I guess they don't think ordinary mortals would want to fiddle with reply headers. :wink:

Randall

[sheila]

I wouldn't call those "reply headers". To me "headers" are something normal people don't look at or see in the body of the email. But you certainly DO see such a citation in the body of a reply that is sent to you.

Heck, Evie asked about it. Are you saying she isn't an ordinary mortal?

Hmmm.

Seriously, ALL the email programs I've used provided that. I find it most odd that Thunderbird doesn't.

[Evoir]

Wow, thanks Sheila. I've changed my settings. Normally I wouldn't want that, but I am communicating with someone (a lawyer) who has requested that it be there, and now I can give that to him. Yeah! I don't know if my regualr email program does that (powermail) but will look into it. :)

[sheila]

No problem, Evie. Glad to help out. Interesting "lawyer" request.

OK, I couldn't help myself... I booted up the Mail.app on my Mac, and it provides that type of reply citation by default, too. (I KNOW that people who use Macs are by and far merely ordinary mortals. :P )

I haven't tweaked the Mail.app at all, since I mostly avoid it. ;)

[Evoir]

I use Powermail, and it has the ability to do this, and you can customize it pretty much any way you want it. Sweet. You learn something every day.

[Joseph]

My email client (The Bat!) has a large number of "templates" in it, that allow me to setup predefined layouts for replies, new messages, forwarded emails, replies with attachments, etc, etc.

It's extremely customizable, and all via the easy to use GUI.

It does add the "[author] wrote on [date]" line to the reply template by default as well. :smile:

[Randall]

I wouldn't call those "reply headers". To me "headers" are something normal people don't look at or see in the body of the email. That was their term, not mine. I'd just call it the "Blah-blah wrote" line. :wink:

Note that the type of header-thingy Evie mentioned at the beginning: > From: someone@example.com
> Date: June 28, 2005 10:12:26 AM PDT
> To: someone@example2.com
> Subject: Re: Subject at hand
is what Outlook and Outlook Express give you, and generally speaking it is not configurable. At all.

At least I can hack T-bird's prefs when I need to. :hammer:

Randall

[sheila]

At least I can hack T-bird's prefs when I need to. :hammer:

Hey, never would I suggest that Outlook (Express) was better than T-bird.