Carlos said:
Uh huh, someone saw. So we are to respond to a post because of the vague
"They" that saw something. What do you care if YOU do not see it?
a line adjacent to the subject of an email in Outlook 2003 SP3.
There is no "line" that prefixes the Subject header. There may be a prefix
character (used for delimiting the quoted message) for the original e-mail
that is inserted and edited inline in the body of a reply (versus when the
actual email gets attached to reply). When inserting inline a portion of
the original message, only a few of the original headers are shown along
with the quoted original message. However, that prefixing of the quoted
message is in the BODY of the reply e-mail, not in the header.
When you receive an email with this line... If you respond the email inhibits
the computer.
Nope, the "you", which is me in the above sentence fragments, does not have
this problem. My e-mail client is not inhibited. It is very extrovert. ;->
The line is similar is how I describe it ... below ...
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That's the prefix character delimiting the quoted message that was deposited
inline the reply (i.e., [a part of] the original message is placed inside
the body of the reply). It's just a character. If your e-mail client is
getting "inhibited" (which you don't define) then something on your host
(and not the vast majority of other Outlook users' hosts) is causing the
problem, like perhaps an add-in.
This prefix character is only shown if you receive an HTML formatted e-mail
and also render it as HTML (since it is a DIV tag used to insert a border).
That it appears means the sender configured their e-mail client to add that
border to delimite some content they received, stuck inline in their new
message, and then sent to you.
If you don't want your replies to put the original message inline (in the
body) of your new message, configure your e-mail client to attach the
original message. Then the person to whom you are sending your new message
will get the actual original message, not just a portion of it. If you
still want to put a modified copy of the original message into the body of
your new message (i.e., inline), it's up to you how that quoted content gets
delimited. Go check the options in your e-mail client regarding its
formatting for replies and forwards. In Outlook 2003, and if haven't been
able to find the options so far assuming you looked, go to Tools -> Options
menu, Preferences tab, E-mail Options button. For replies, you don't really
need to attach the original message since the original sender should already
have a copy or know the context of the conversation they already started or
participated in. For forwards, it's up to you whether you send a partial
(inline) or full (attached) copy of the original message. If you forward
inline, you are NOT giving the recipient a copy of the actual original
message but just a piece of it and perhaps an edited version of it.
