On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:34 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > sorry, i don't know how to do any better in gmail (and does it different on > the gmail app on my android too - sorta messed up). should i color replies > differently or something?
Quoting is typically done by prefixing each line of the quoted text with "> ". Most mailers (including Gmail's Web interface) will do this for you. Since you even suggested sending colored text I'm going to assume that you are sending G-mail's default, which will probably end up being whichever format is capable of sending your message (i.e., HTML, if necessary). Looking at the original raw message that I'm responding to (and quoting) it appears that Gmail sent the E-mail as a multipart/alternative, which is apparently used to send multiple copies of the same E-mail in different formats. The only format that I received appears to be text so I don't really understand why it would do that... In any case, I can only assume that your quoting problems are related to this. Either that, or you're screwing it up from your phone. ;) I personally use Gmail (most of the time) too, but to my knowledge my E-mails are sent as I expected them to be (with the occasional unintended wrapping of code if I forget to count my columns). You can configure Gmail to send plain-text E-mails in its configuration settings. It actually works out because as it turns out alternative formats are evil. ;D -- Brandon McCaig <http://www.bamccaig.com/> <bamcc...@gmail.com> V zrna gur orfg jvgu jung V fnl. Vg qbrfa'g nyjnlf fbhaq gung jnl. Castopulence Software <http://www.castopulence.org/> <bamcc...@castopulence.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
