"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> Thanks to poor design of some PC-based mail agents, one will
> occasionally see the entire quoted message after the response, like
> this:
>
> response to message
>
> > entire message
Don't you mean:
response to message
----- Original Message -----
From: Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: ObElitist (was Re: Virus incident)
> entire message
God, that shit makes me violent. If I ever find the guy at MS who
thought up that crap...
> Fixing quoting problems with Microsoft Outlook
>
> As a large number of people use Microsoft Outlook, ("Outlook is a
> security hole that also happens to be an e-mail client", Steven J.
> Vaughan-Nichols [1]) despite the many security exploits associated with the
> program, to say nothing of its flouting of Internet mail standards, I've
> assembled the following directions to achieve a closer conformance with
> Internet mail standards. See also:
>
> http://www.lemis.com/email/fixing-outlook.html
>
> To set linewrap, quote character, and non-HTML mail preferences:
>
> From the "Tools" menu, chose "Options...".
>
> To set Plain Text as the default format:
>
> Click the "Send" tab. Under "Mail Sending Format", select
> "Plain Text".
>
>
> To wrap lines at 72 characters:
>
> While still on that same tab, click the "Plain Text Settings"
> button to bring up the "Plain Text Settings" dialog. Edit the
> value of the "Automatically wrap text at __ characters, when
> sending" field to 72.
>
>
> To set the prefix character:
>
> While still on the "Plain Text Settings" dialog, ensure that the
> "Indent the original text with __ when replying or forwarding"
> field is checked, and that "> " is selected in the drop box.
> (Both should be so by default.)
>
> Thanks to Dan Martinez for this information.
IIRC, even with these fixes, Outlook still suffers brain damage. For
example, it'll wrap *everything* at 72 chars so that quoted messages
look like:
> As a large number of people use Microsoft Outlook, ("Outlook is a security
hole
> that also happens to be an e-mail client", Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols [1])
despite
Unfuckingbelievable, IMHO.
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