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I'm messing around with changing the reply header in Thunderbird so that it's more than "(name) wrote:". I found an extension which makes TB behave basically like Outlook Express, using something like the following text in a reply:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Wow this is a lot of information to include.
From: Someone <someone@someone.net>
To: Whoever <whoever@whoever.com>
Date: 11/29/06 3:46 AM
This is OK, but what I want, really, is just that third line -- the sender's name followed by the sender's email address -- so I have to delete everything else for every message replied to. I had to do this with OE, of course, so it's not that I'm not used to it, but it seems like I should be able to get Thunderbird to do just what I want without having to delete stuff I didn't want to include in the first place.
This particular extension isn't terribly flexible, though. You can select no header at all, the Thunderbird standard, the output shown above, or "custom" which actually just looks at user.js (and in fact, two of the four options you can select by directly editing user.js are also "no header" and "Thunderbird default"). No ability to select just one of the lines. So I decided to poke user.js directly and see if I could get any further, but I have no idea what magic words to put in to make Thunderbird include also the email address as well as just the name (the %s in "mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s said the following" seems to refer only to name).
Also, if I select the preference value that turns on using these custom lines, then it seems I have to get all four of them whether I like it or not ([authorwrote] [separator] [ondate] [colon]), and that I can't change the order in which Thunderbird outputs them (if I have to have all four, I want the date first, "On [date] [author] wrote:"), or stop it from including any one of them (if I delete the line from user.js, it just calls on some default value and puts it in anyway). It seems like this feature is mainly for tweaking the exact wording of the header, and cannot accomplish the customization I am looking for, with the information that I have at the moment.
My desired final result is something like:
Glorfindel <glorfin@rivendell.org> wrote:
or
On 11/29/06, Glorfindel <glorfin@rivendell.org> wrote:
(I'd prefer to be able to leave out the time, as shown here, but that may not be possible, since I think it's just taking the date straight out of the email header.)
How can I get this?
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Wow this is a lot of information to include.
From: Someone <someone@someone.net>
To: Whoever <whoever@whoever.com>
Date: 11/29/06 3:46 AM
This is OK, but what I want, really, is just that third line -- the sender's name followed by the sender's email address -- so I have to delete everything else for every message replied to. I had to do this with OE, of course, so it's not that I'm not used to it, but it seems like I should be able to get Thunderbird to do just what I want without having to delete stuff I didn't want to include in the first place.
This particular extension isn't terribly flexible, though. You can select no header at all, the Thunderbird standard, the output shown above, or "custom" which actually just looks at user.js (and in fact, two of the four options you can select by directly editing user.js are also "no header" and "Thunderbird default"). No ability to select just one of the lines. So I decided to poke user.js directly and see if I could get any further, but I have no idea what magic words to put in to make Thunderbird include also the email address as well as just the name (the %s in "mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s said the following" seems to refer only to name).
Also, if I select the preference value that turns on using these custom lines, then it seems I have to get all four of them whether I like it or not ([authorwrote] [separator] [ondate] [colon]), and that I can't change the order in which Thunderbird outputs them (if I have to have all four, I want the date first, "On [date] [author] wrote:"), or stop it from including any one of them (if I delete the line from user.js, it just calls on some default value and puts it in anyway). It seems like this feature is mainly for tweaking the exact wording of the header, and cannot accomplish the customization I am looking for, with the information that I have at the moment.
My desired final result is something like:
Glorfindel <glorfin@rivendell.org> wrote:
or
On 11/29/06, Glorfindel <glorfin@rivendell.org> wrote:
(I'd prefer to be able to leave out the time, as shown here, but that may not be possible, since I think it's just taking the date straight out of the email header.)
How can I get this?
