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caligraf edited this page Oct 26, 2023 · 17 revisions

Welcome to the ChangeQuote wiki!

it's an addon for Thunderbird that modifies the reply header. You can choose between

  • the standard Thunderbird reply header
  • a detailed reply header
  • a customized reply header.

You can also configure some additional options:

  • close message window after reply
  • mark message as read after reply
  • reply stripping off the inline attachments

And you can choose format (text, html ...) when reply to an email in the added drop down menu on reply button : Drop Down Menu

version 1.5 is the first version compatible with Thunderbird 78 version 1.7.0 is the first version compatible with Thunderbird 115

Installation

You can install it from https://addons.thunderbird.net/fr/thunderbird/addon/changequote/ or from add-on menu in Thunderbird:

  1. Go to addonMenu:
  2. search ChangeQuote:
  3. Click on Add to Thunderbird:

Configuration

After installing the plugin, you can configure it in the “Tools” -> “Add-on Preferences” -> “changeQuote” menu to the style you like.

Configuration options:
options

Choose the option "Extended reply header" To have a reply header looks like this:
---- Original message -----
Subject: something
From: email@provider.com
To: email@provider.com
Date: 01/01/2020

Choose the options "customized the reply header" to customize reply header:
SYNTAX FOR CUSTOMIZED HEADERS

%%1 = author
%%2 = recipients
%%3 = recipients (CC)
%%4 = subject
%%5 = date
%%6 = author (name only)
%%7 = author (address only)
%%8 = recipients (name only)
%%9 = recipients (CC - name only)

The parts enclosed between {{ and }} are displayed just if the header inside is not null.
This means that a header with

To : %%2{{ and %%3}}

will give

To : mail1@xxx.org (if CC is null)
To : mail1@xxx.org and mail2@xxx.org (if CC is mail2@xxx.org)

SYNTAX FOR CUSTOMIZED DATE FORMAT

%d = day of the month, 2 digits ("01" to "31")
%D = day of the week, textual, English, 3 letters ("Fri")
%LD = day of the week, textual, localized ("Friday")
%m = month ("01" to "12")
%M = month, textual, English, 3 letters ("Jan")
%M = month, textual, localized ("January")
%Y, %y = year, 4 digits ("1999")
%i = minutes ("00" to "59")
%s = seconds ("00" to "59")
%H = hour, 24-hour format ("00" to "23")
%h = hour, 12-hour format ("01" to "12")
%A = "AM" or "PM"
%a = "am" or "pm"
%e = space-filled date of month
%z = timezone offset from UTC

The extension has english, dutch, finnish, french, german, italian, japanese, russian, serbian, slovak, svedish, portoguese (brazilian) locales

Link to original creator: https://freeshell.de/~kaosmos/changequote-en.html

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