Outlook style top-posting

[Jeff Kowalczyk]

Are there any mu4e users who configure replies conforming to the Outlook top-posting convention?

   Reply body text.

   -----Original Message-----

   From: Original Poster

   Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:47 AM

   To: Tom Tester

   Subject: Outlook

   Message body text.

I'm getting complaints from outlook-using work correspondents that the ">" prefixes and interleaving make replies hard to follow. From my perspective, I'm wasting time and making errors reformatting thread messages to maintain a consistent top or bottom posting style.

Thanks in advance if anyone is willing to share tips on packages required or config.

Jeff

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

mu4e use the gnus/message machinery for citing, which allows for all
kinds of styles, including the one that Outlook uses; see
mu4e-compose-cite-function
and then the various way to configure it,
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/message/Insertion-Variables.html

This should give you a start:

(setq
message-yank-prefix ""
message-yank-cited-prefix ""
message-yank-empty-prefix ""
message-indentation-spaces 4
message-cite-reply-position 'above
message-citation-line-format
(concat
"-----Original Message-----\n"
"From: %N\n"
"Sent: %x %X\n\n"))

Cheers,
Dirk.

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[Jeff Kowalczyk]

Thanks!

What mu4e-compose-cite-function should I be using with this?

The citation remaind as per defaults until I defined:

(setq mu4e-compose-cite-function 'message-insert-formatted-citation-line)

But then the inserted citation differs from the specified message-citation-line-format:

From: Test user

To: Me, Other Recipients

Cc: Third Party

Subject: The Subject

Flags: seen, attach

Date: 2014-08-25T09:47:42-0700

Maildir: /work/INBOX

Attachments: [1]image1.jpg(16.9K), [2]image2.png(3.1K),

My configuration, Using el-get:

(:name mu4e

  :after (progn

  ...

  (setq message-yank-prefix "")

  (setq message-yank-cited-prefix "")

  (setq message-yank-empty-prefix "")

  (setq message-indentation-spaces 4)

  (setq message-cite-reply-position 'above)

  (setq message-citation-line-format

        (concat

         "-----Original Message-----\n"

         "From: %N\n"

         "Sent: %x %X\n\n"))

  (setq mu4e-compose-cite-function 'message-insert-formatted-citation-line)

  ...))

Thanks,

Jeff

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[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

Hi Jeff,

On Monday Aug 25 2014, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:

> Thanks!
>
> What mu4e-compose-cite-function should I be using with this?

Note that while Outlook likes top-posting, it's usually not the best for
mailing-lists.

> The citation remaind as per defaults until I defined:
>
> (setq mu4e-compose-cite-function 'message-insert-formatted-citation-line)

I'm using the default, message-cite-original-without-signature; however,
your citation function should be, well, a citation function, and
message-insert-formatted-citation-line is not.

You can check some of the alternatives (if you want to play with this)
by checking the defininion of message-cite-function.

Cheers,
Dirk.

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