Hi. There's been a lot of talk on the rockbox list of late about
top-quoting. Now it seems only OE and Microsoft outlook do this by default,
and it is rather backwards and stupid.
Email clients such as The BAt! Do not do this to my knowledge, or if they
do, their owners fix this immediately.
A member of the Rockbox list posted this url which I find quite useful and
now I use it in conjunction with OE. OK so it's not the best mail client
ever, nore does it really follow lovely RFC regulations but it just about
works. Microsoft can never quite get it right can they?
Anyway, I've introduced some people to it already and they seem to like it,
so I thought I'd put it out there to talk2 members using OE and Microsoft
outlook and see what they make of it.
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
Directly from the website comes a bit about what it does and why:
OE-QuoteFix will extend the functionality of MS Outlook Express in numerous
ways! Its main purpose is to modify message composition windows on-the-fly
to allow for correct quoting and to change the appearance of your plain-text
replies and forwards in general: move your signature, use compressed
indentation, have RFC compliant signatures, etc.
But the second feature is equally practical: OE-QuoteFix can instantly color
quoted passages (according to the level of indentation), fix bad quoting and
generally beautify messages as you view them in Outlook Express.
Quoting & Formatting
If you use Outlook Express as your mail/news client and make use of
plain-text messages (which are still the way to go, especially in the
usenet), you will have noticed that OE doesn't exactly feature the most
intelligent quoting algorithm; in fact, it's the silliest one imaginable.
The following will probably look familiar... This is a simple sample text,
and as you will see, Outlook Express is going
to wrap this line. I've always hated that! And one night I said to myself,
"It can't go on like this". And so I wrote OE-QuoteFix...
--
Dominik Jain
http://flash.to/oblivion
"Dominik Jain" wrote in message
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This is a simple sample text, and as you will see, Outlook Express is
going
to wrap this line. I've always hated that! And one night I said to myself,
"It can't go on like this". And so I wrote OE-QuoteFix...
--
Dominik Jain
http://flash.to/oblivion
"Dominik Jain" wrote in message
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> This is a simple sample text, and as you will see, Outlook Express is
going
> to wrap this line. I've always hated that! And one night I said to
myself,
> "It can't go on like this". And so I wrote OE-QuoteFix...
>
> --
> Dominik Jain
> http://flash.to/oblivion
>
>
So there you have it. That's a muchly cut down discription but I run it
like Bewaresntp which is sitting in task manager but with no task bar icon
and nothing in the system tray to even indicate that it is at all there.
Hope it's interesting to someone at least.
Andre P. Louis
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