Message quoting in Thunderbird

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Spacey Spade

Is there a way for Thunderbird to quote without the ">" ?

L I K E T H I S (outlook style):

-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:

Blah Blah Blah


I N S T E A D O F L I K E T H I S (thunderbird style):
 
I don't want to collapse quotes, I just don't want there to be a quote
character. If I want to interpost, I can always cut the text and use
thunderbird's inbuilt "past as quotation" ctrl-shift-V
 
Spacey said:
Is there a way for Thunderbird to quote without the ">" ?

L I K E T H I S (outlook style):

-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:

Blah Blah Blah


I N S T E A D O F L I K E T H I S (thunderbird style):
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Try putting this into your usercontent.css file. Hope this helps.

blockquote[type=cite] {
border-right: none ! important;
border-left: none ! important;
}
 
Spacey said:
Is there a way for Thunderbird to quote without the ">" ?
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L I K E T H I S (outlook style):
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-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Click to expand...
Blah Blah Blah
Click to expand...
I N S T E A D O F L I K E T H I S (thunderbird style):
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Try putting this into your usercontent.css file. Hope this helps.

blockquote[type=cite] {
border-right: none ! important;
border-left: none ! important;
}
Click to expand...

I could only find a file named usercontent.css on my hard drive in
locations for Firefox and Kmeleon. In Thunderbird folder, the only
file containing the word "blockquote" was html.css, and changing things
in here had no effect.
 
Try putting this into your usercontent.css file. Hope this helps.
blockquote[type=cite] {
border-right: none ! important;
border-left: none ! important;
}
Click to expand...

Searched the forums at mozilla thunderbird website and found this:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=588836#588836

I'm in the same boat as the last post by fallout84:

I am using TB 0.71

What I want is to absolutely get rid of the brackets > when quoting a
message.
When I click on reply TB should just copy the text from the original
into a new message.

In the folder xxxxxxxx.slt\chrome I created (as you wrote) the file
userContent.css and added the lines:
Code:
blockquote[type=cite] {
padding-bottom: 0 ! important;
padding-top: 0 ! important;
padding-left: 0 ! important;
border-left: none ! important;
border-right: none ! important;
}

in the root of xxxxxxxx.slt I added the following lines to prefs.js AND
user.js (which I also had to create like the userContent.css):
Code:
user_pref("mail.quoted_graphical", false);
user_pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);


What happened was, that the sent and received mails were displayed
without the bars but only showing the quoting-brackets.
When I now reply to any msg TB still adds these brackets.

What do I have to do to get rid of them too ?
Click to expand...
 
Spacey said:
Try putting this into your usercontent.css file. Hope this helps.

blockquote[type=cite] {
border-right: none ! important;
border-left: none ! important;
}
Click to expand...


Searched the forums at mozilla thunderbird website and found this:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=588836#588836

I'm in the same boat as the last post by fallout84:

I am using TB 0.71

What I want is to absolutely get rid of the brackets > when quoting a
message.
When I click on reply TB should just copy the text from the original
into a new message.

In the folder xxxxxxxx.slt\chrome I created (as you wrote) the file
userContent.css and added the lines:
Code:
blockquote[type=cite] {
padding-bottom: 0 ! important;
padding-top: 0 ! important;
padding-left: 0 ! important;
border-left: none ! important;
border-right: none ! important;
}

in the root of xxxxxxxx.slt I added the following lines to prefs.js AND
user.js (which I also had to create like the userContent.css):
Code:
user_pref("mail.quoted_graphical", false);
user_pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);


What happened was, that the sent and received mails were displayed
without the bars but only showing the quoting-brackets.
When I now reply to any msg TB still adds these brackets.

What do I have to do to get rid of them too ?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...

I don't know if you've noticed it in the version you're using, but I'm
using 1.0.6 and it does a *terrible* job of quoting. It inconsistantly
doesn't leave a space after the last carat at the start of a quoted
line, inserts too many lines between levels of quoting AND it puts an
unnecessary blank line at the bottom. If left uncorrected, after about
three levels of replying in a thread, the quoting becomes a real
eyesore. I try to constantly clean this kind of mess up, but I left it
unchanged above for an example. Mozilla didn't use to have this kind of
problem, or maybe it was Netscape. I forget which version and which
program it was when I first started noticing these problems.
 
Try putting this into your usercontent.css file. Hope this helps.

blockquote[type=cite] {
border-right: none ! important;
border-left: none ! important;
}
Click to expand...

Searched the forums at mozilla thunderbird website and found this:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=588836#588836

I'm in the same boat as the last post by fallout84:

I am using TB 0.71

What I want is to absolutely get rid of the brackets > when quoting a
message.
When I click on reply TB should just copy the text from the original
into a new message.

In the folder xxxxxxxx.slt\chrome I created (as you wrote) the file
userContent.css and added the lines:
Code:
blockquote[type=cite] {
padding-bottom: 0 ! important;
padding-top: 0 ! important;
padding-left: 0 ! important;
border-left: none ! important;
border-right: none ! important;
}

in the root of xxxxxxxx.slt I added the following lines to prefs.js AND
user.js (which I also had to create like the userContent.css):
Code:
user_pref("mail.quoted_graphical", false);
user_pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);


What happened was, that the sent and received mails were displayed
without the bars but only showing the quoting-brackets.
When I now reply to any msg TB still adds these brackets.

What do I have to do to get rid of them too ?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...

Why do you want to get rid of the items which delineate who said what,
when and in what order?
 
David said:
Why do you want to get rid of the items which delineate who said what,
when and in what order?
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Because it seems no program can master word wrap and quoting. Things
end up being a mess. That's why there's programs like UnReply. If I
want to quote you, then I'll quote you like I just did. If I want to
keep previous message history, I will keep it below** my message with
this, or something like this:

-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:

**can't beat them, join em
 
John said:
I don't know if you've noticed it in the version you're using, but I'm
using 1.0.6 and it does a *terrible* job of quoting. It inconsistantly
doesn't leave a space after the last carat at the start of a quoted
line, inserts too many lines between levels of quoting AND it puts an
unnecessary blank line at the bottom. If left uncorrected, after about
three levels of replying in a thread, the quoting becomes a real
eyesore. I try to constantly clean this kind of mess up, but I left it
unchanged above for an example. Mozilla didn't use to have this kind of
problem, or maybe it was Netscape. I forget which version and which
program it was when I first started noticing these problems.
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I'm using 1.0. I guess I should go look and see if I'm missing
something by not upgrading. Heck, I went looking for extensions before
checking the latest release notes. In regards to the quoting, it is a
mess here. I can't tell you if it is a worse mess in 1.0.6. Everyone
has their own needs, and that's why extensions exist. I think I'll
start a new thread...
 
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