Forced indentation in replies

[Anders Kirkeby]

Sometimes the automatic functionality to indent (with a character like '>')
the text you're replying to works and sometimes not. Apparently it depends
on the format of the mail you're replying to. Is there a way to force OE to
indent the old text no matter what?

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[W.G. Pflaum]

Anders Kirkeby wrote in message
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>Sometimes the automatic functionality to indent (with a character like
'>')
>the text you're replying to works and sometimes not. Apparently it
depends
>on the format of the mail you're replying to. Is there a way to force
OE to
>indent the old text no matter what?

No, you cannot force it in OE. Had to find out the hard way, too. For
your (and my :-) convenience, I'll post an earlier reply to someone
else:

There is a workaround to that. It is a bit complicated,
but
it works:

I have been having this problem, too, and posted the question
to 3 ng's. I got a lot of halfways or incorrect answers. Finally, I
found a web site explaining this in depth. The bad thing is,
the site is in German. If you understand German, check this
out: http://www.trionet.de/~florenzvillegas/OE-FAQ/

Else, I will give a short recap here: First, you would want to
turn off the Reply to messages using the format in which they
were sent under Tools/Options/Send.
This only happens, when you get messages in Mime - Quoted
printable, Base64 or html. Now you open the message and go to
Compose/Forward. You will get a quoted message, which you
can paste and copy to your answer. This seems to be the only
way to really get those d... ">" 's if you need them. But it works!

BTW, I believe if you have Tools/Options/Send on HTML this
does not work. Set it to Plain Text and None. UUencode works
too.

George

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[Anders Kirkeby]

Thanks, that seems to work. I guess we'll just have to wait and see if the
upcoming IE5+ includes an OE with this problem solved once and for all.