e-mails "in red"

Some days ago, I wrote a message to someone who sent me an answer with my
original message.
My original message was printed "in red colour" and my correspondent
specified in his answer that my message was a "followed one".
Could someone explain what is "a followed e-mail printed in red".
Thanks in advance
Christine

Christine Lhotel wrote:
> Some days ago, I wrote a message to someone who sent me an answer with
> my original message.
> My original message was printed "in red colour" and my correspondent
> specified in his answer that my message was a "followed one".
> Could someone explain what is "a followed e-mail printed in red".
> Thanks in advance
> Christine

I assume that you mean that in the reply you got your original message
was quoted and the quote was in red.

Most email programs allow you to set different colors for reading quoted
text because this makes it very easy to follow a "conversation" - one
color (usually black) for the original message, other colors for quoted
messages in replies.

Look in Windows Mail Help for something like "quote colors" to find
where the options for this live. Or wait until a Windows Mail expert
like Steve Cochran comes along to tell you exactly where the option is. ;-)


Malke
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There used to be a third party add-on called OE-QuoteFix.
One of its features was the ability to have different levels of
quotes in different colors. Neither OE nor WinMail has that
capability. However, in newsgroups if I mark a message as
"Watch Conversation" any subsequent posts in that thread
will be in red.

I don't know how to turn an email red except with HTML
(outgoing), or by using a message filter rule (for incoming).

Gary VanderMolen

"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:%23pHu7Y4dHHA.3956@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Christine Lhotel wrote:
>> Some days ago, I wrote a message to someone who sent me an answer with
>> my original message.
>> My original message was printed "in red colour" and my correspondent
>> specified in his answer that my message was a "followed one".
>> Could someone explain what is "a followed e-mail printed in red".
>> Thanks in advance
>> Christine
>
> I assume that you mean that in the reply you got your original message
> was quoted and the quote was in red.
>
> Most email programs allow you to set different colors for reading quoted
> text because this makes it very easy to follow a "conversation" - one
> color (usually black) for the original message, other colors for quoted
> messages in replies.
>
> Look in Windows Mail Help for something like "quote colors" to find
> where the options for this live. Or wait until a Windows Mail expert
> like Steve Cochran comes along to tell you exactly where the option is. ;-)
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Gary VanderMolen wrote:
> There used to be a third party add-on called OE-QuoteFix.
> One of its features was the ability to have different levels of
> quotes in different colors. Neither OE nor WinMail has that
> capability. However, in newsgroups if I mark a message as
> "Watch Conversation" any subsequent posts in that thread
> will be in red.
>
> I don't know how to turn an email red except with HTML
> (outgoing), or by using a message filter rule (for incoming).

Thanks, Gary. I should have included you in my statement about Windows
Mail experts along with Steve Cochran. I try to read all your posts
because you really Know Your Stuff. :-)

I really am not sure what the OP was doing and maybe she'll come back
and tell us... and maybe she won't. ;-) Thanks for the explanation anyway.

Cheers,

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User