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Re: Setting Thunderbird email client attribution line format



Hell Arthur.

> Hi, I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find how to set
> attribution lines in Thunderbird.

An info first: if you are searching for an option, you should look in
about:config first. When an option doesn’t exist there, it doesn’t exist.

> I'd like to be able to have the
> following appear when I reply to a message:
> 
> On <name of day> <year>-<month>-<day>, <name email-address> wrote:
> 
> Where is this set and where is this setting documented?

Here[0] is one example:

> // Change the reply header 
> // 0 - No Reply-Text 
> // 1 - <Author> wrote:   - Netscape 3.xx/4.xx style 
> // 2 - On <date> <author> wrote: 
> // 3 - user-defined string. Use the prefs below in conjuction with this. 
> user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3); 
> // If you set 3 for the pref above then you may set the following prefs. 
> // The end result will be <authorwrote><separator><ondate><colon> 
> user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s said the following"); 
> user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "on %s"); 
> user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_separator", " "); 
> user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_colon", ":");


Regards, Mathias

[0] http://www.geocities.com/pratiksolanki/old-index.html

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