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> Can I ask what it is you don't like about Outlook?

The simple fact that it does not mark lines starting with '> ' as quoting is really off-putting.

At work, my co-workers are getting convinced that in-line replies are much better, but if the author (me!) uses plain-text only, all the other Outlook users will have a hard time reading my emails.

Actually, all about plain-text email is a pain in Outlook. I took more time to configure it (as good as it can) to send plain-text email, but now I read all my incoming emails as plain-text.

And to make it quote with '> ' in the beginning and make it properly work was a hell.

All in all, Outlook, to me, is the symbol of the Microsoft of the 1990s.

Bonus: with External Editor [1], I can use Vim (or any other editor) to edit my emails in Thunderbird. No way I could ever do so on Outlook.

[1]: https://github.com/exteditor/exteditor



Ha, yes, that is annoying actually! Instead it adds a kind of arrow-shaped bullet point. I always wondered why.




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