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From: Tom Stiller on 31 Oct 2009 13:06 In article <C711D2EA.47B933%bobhaar(a)me.com>, Robert Haar <bobhaar(a)me.com> wrote: > On 10/31/09 10:49 AM, "Tom Stiller" <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > In article <C710E94F.49F43%nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com>, > > Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> In article C710B31F.47B6E2%bobhaar(a)me.com, Robert Haar at bobhaar(a)me.com > >> wrote on 10/30/09 3:13 PM: > > >>> The one thing that I don't like about Mail is that it doesn't follow > >>> standard quoting in display of messages with nested replies. Maybe there > >>> is > >>> a preernce for this, but I haven't found it. > > > > I'm not sure what you mean here. It's true that Mail uses a different > > representation for quoting, using different colored vertical bars (and > > optionally, text) to indicate the various levels quoting, it respects > > the ordinary conventions, for both in display and reply. > > That's exactly what I am talking about. The normal convention is to put "> > "in front of each lien the first time it is quoted and another ">" for > embedded quotations. But Mail insists on showing vertical liens and color > coding. Personally, I find the colored bars more helpful than the multiple ">". Coloring the text is even more helpful for me. > > Also, it does not understand the proper handling a signatures. Agreed. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: Nick Naym on 31 Oct 2009 13:48 In article C711D2EA.47B933%bobhaar(a)me.com, Robert Haar at bobhaar(a)me.com wrote on 10/31/09 11:41 AM: .... .... >> >> I'm not sure what you mean here. It's true that Mail uses a different >> representation for quoting, using different colored vertical bars (and >> optionally, text) to indicate the various levels quoting, it respects >> the ordinary conventions, for both in display and reply. > > That's exactly what I am talking about. The normal convention is to put "> > "in front of each lien the first time it is quoted and another ">" for > embedded quotations. But Mail insists on showing vertical liens and color > coding. > > Also, it does not understand the proper handling a signatures. Since I've yet to use Mail.app, I don't know how it handles sigs. Can you explain? -- iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8)
From: Robert Haar on 31 Oct 2009 16:25 On 10/31/09 1:48 PM, "Nick Naym" <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote: > In article C711D2EA.47B933%bobhaar(a)me.com, Robert Haar at bobhaar(a)me.com > wrote on 10/31/09 11:41 AM: > ... > > ... > >>> >>> I'm not sure what you mean here. It's true that Mail uses a different >>> representation for quoting, using different colored vertical bars (and >>> optionally, text) to indicate the various levels quoting, it respects >>> the ordinary conventions, for both in display and reply. >> >> That's exactly what I am talking about. The normal convention is to put "> >> "in front of each lien the first time it is quoted and another ">" for >> embedded quotations. But Mail insists on showing vertical liens and color >> coding. >> >> Also, it does not understand the proper handling a signatures. > > Since I've yet to use Mail.app, I don't know how it handles sigs. Can you > explain? The signature block (or just sig) should be removed from the quoted text in a reply. The normal way that a sig is distinguished from ordinary text is that is starts with a line containing two hyphens, a space and the an end-of-line character.
From: Nick Naym on 31 Oct 2009 16:41 In article C7121585.47B991%bobhaar(a)me.com, Robert Haar at bobhaar(a)me.com wrote on 10/31/09 4:25 PM: > On 10/31/09 1:48 PM, "Nick Naym" <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote: > >> In article C711D2EA.47B933%bobhaar(a)me.com, Robert Haar at bobhaar(a)me.com >> wrote on 10/31/09 11:41 AM: >> ... >> >> ... >> >>>> >>>> I'm not sure what you mean here. It's true that Mail uses a different >>>> representation for quoting, using different colored vertical bars (and >>>> optionally, text) to indicate the various levels quoting, it respects >>>> the ordinary conventions, for both in display and reply. >>> >>> That's exactly what I am talking about. The normal convention is to put "> >>> "in front of each lien the first time it is quoted and another ">" for >>> embedded quotations. But Mail insists on showing vertical liens and color >>> coding. >>> >>> Also, it does not understand the proper handling a signatures. >> >> Since I've yet to use Mail.app, I don't know how it handles sigs. Can you >> explain? > > The signature block (or just sig) should be removed from the quoted text in > a reply. The normal way that a sig is distinguished from ordinary text is > that is starts with a line containing two hyphens, a space and the an > end-of-line character. > I assume, therefore, that Mail.app _doesn't_ remove the sig block? -- iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8)
From: Andrew Cook on 1 Nov 2009 04:27
Davoud <star(a)sky.net> wrote: two other items that have deterred me from making the move... > > The thing that deters me from switching from Entourage to Mail is that > Entourage is the best e-mail client that ever was for the Mac Full > stop. What version is that? I've finally managed to escape from Entourage, and I'm so releived. May I suggest a website which may help ? http://www.aricept.com/ |