Works on some mail accounts, but not on others

[the-solipsist]

I'm facing a problem where ChangeQuote works for 2 of my mail accounts, but not the 3rd.

I checked the mail headers to see if the Date: headers are different, but that wasn't the case. I sent a test e-mail from a Gmail address to all 3 e-mails.

I have ChangeQuote use "Customized header reply", with the format: <%%7> [%%5]:, and "Use long or customized format in date field" selected, along with the "Customized format (sender)" set to: %Y-%m-%d | %H:%i:%s %z.

The Date: header in that test e-mail in all three account reads:
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 01:15:10 +0530

But when I press Ctrl+R, the reply header format is different for one of the mail accounts:
Account 1: <name@example.com> [Sun Dec 13 2020 01:15:10 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)]:
Account 2: <name@example.com> [2020-12-13 | 01:15:10 +0530]:
Account 3: <name@example.com> [2020-12-13 | 01:15:10 +0530]:

I can't seem to figure out what about Account 1 is causing this problem. I checked all the settings in "Account Settings", but there seem to be no significant differences between the three accounts.

[georg-d]

Same here; it's also 1st Account that ignores custom date/time format %y-%m-%d %H:%i (i.e. ISO format) but instead writes in the long DE formatting variant like e.g. Sat Nov 13 2021 20:24:44 GMT+0100 (Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit) I am using TB v91.3.0 and changeQuote v1.5.3
Side note: In TB 91, you can change the visualized order of accounts, but that does not make a difference concerning this issue, so I guess the technical order of accounts remains unchanged.

[the-solipsist]

Has anyone found any workaround?

[the-solipsist]

For the moment, using the Smart Templates add-on is a potential workaround. The free version of the add-on doesn't allow changing date formats, but in the paid version that's possible.

[caligraf]

The add-on ChangeQuote has been rewritten for Thunderbird 115, could you test with the last version 1.7.9 ?
https://github.com/caligraf/ChangeQuote/releases/download/1.7.9/ChangeQuote.xpi

[the-solipsist]

This works great, thanks!

One bug I've noticed: Adding the < character before %%7, i.e., while writing <%%7>, makes the email address disappear.

[caligraf]

This is because the < and > characters are ‘reserved’ characters in HTML, so it is interpreted as a HTML tag wxxx@xxx.yyy which does not exist so it prints nothing.
You need to use < instead of < and > instead of > when you really want to display a '<' or '>'.
example:
to have : John Smith <johnsmith@xxxx.com>
you need to put : %%6 <%%7>
to have John Smith <johnsmith@xxxx.com>
you need to put : <b>;%6 &lt;%%7&gt </b>