OL2K Force Format->Plain Text on Reply? (regardless of original format)

[foobar]

As I'm reading thru slipstick and other sites I'm wondering if it
would be possible to somehow script OL2K to do this...?

Most (of my) emails come in text - no biggee.

For those that come in html/rtf - NOT upon opening or previewing in
the pane but UPON REPLY - automatically convert to plain text AND
insert the ">" for each line.

That would be a great compromise. You see the original email in the
format intended by the sender and upon reply you work w/ it in the
format of your preference (text in my case).

Thoughts...?

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Currently if you need to do this after you hit the REply button... you
have to:
[A) Hit Reply]
B) Select Format Menu
C) Select Plain Text
D) Confirm w/ YES

It would be nice to eliminate steps B, C and D above as they get
awfully repetitive after a while!

It would also be nice to sneak in the ">" as well for each original
line...

Thoughts...? Ideas...?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

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Having searched the archives,
foobar <[email protected]> typed:
| As I'm reading thru slipstick and other sites I'm wondering if it
| would be possible to somehow script OL2K to do this...?
|
| Most (of my) emails come in text - no biggee.
|
| For those that come in html/rtf - NOT upon opening or previewing in
| the pane but UPON REPLY - automatically convert to plain text AND
| insert the ">" for each line.
|
| That would be a great compromise. You see the original email in the
| format intended by the sender and upon reply you work w/ it in the
| format of your preference (text in my case).
|
| Thoughts...?
|
| ===========
|
| Currently if you need to do this after you hit the REply button... you
| have to:
| [A) Hit Reply]
| B) Select Format Menu
| C) Select Plain Text
| D) Confirm w/ YES
|
| It would be nice to eliminate steps B, C and D above as they get
| awfully repetitive after a while!
|
| It would also be nice to sneak in the ">" as well for each original
| line...
|
| Thoughts...? Ideas...?

 

[foobar]

<GROAN!> I was afraid of that - yeah, I can give it a shot - I used to
program in another life.

FWIW - I was just playing around w/ OL Expr and it does EXACTLY this.
Well almost - it doesn't at teh ">" on those messages originally in
html/rtf but it does the automatic conversion to text on each reply.
Not bad! Too bad it didnt' make it over the OL2K...

Anyway - what did you have in mind...? (I was looking through your
previous post w/ links to slipstick and coding samples there)

thanks,
-T