ENT2001: Explanations of Message Reply and Forward Options in Entourage. (278040)

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You can format your messages if you click either the Reply & Forward or the Mail Attribution options on the Reply & Forward tab in the Mail & News Preferences dialog box. The following are the Reply & Forward options:

Reply & Forward Options

• Include Entire Message in Reply - Includes the entire text of the original message when you reply to or forward a message.
• Use Quoting Characters When Forwarding - Adds quoting formatting to messages that you forward. Angle brackets (>) are added to plain text messages and the quoted text is indented in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) messages.
• Reply to Messages in the Format in Which They Were Sent - Sends replies in the format of the original message, either in plain text or HTML format. If this option is not selected, the default message format is used.
• Reply Using the Default Account - Sends replies with the account that is designated as the default. If this option is not selected, the reply is sent by using the account that received it.

Message Attribution

An attribution applies a standard introductory phrase to your mail message. Attributions may use variables for the name, the address, and the date, where [NAME] is the display name of the sender of the original message, [ADDRESS] is the SMTP address of the original sender and [DATE] is the date the original message was sent. The following are the configurable options for message attributions:

• Use None -An attribution is not applied. The message text is quoted according to the Reply & Forward option that you set. The cursor is placed below the quoted text.
• Prefix My Replies with Internet Style Attribution Lines - Uses the default attribution, "On [DATE], [NAME], [ADDRESS] wrote," which you can customize. If you use any of the variables in the custom attribution, they are entered as text in the attribution field or selected from the drop-down list to the right of the Edit box. In addition, if you click to select the Place Insertion Point Before Quoted Text check box, your reply can appear at the beginning of the message. If you do not want an attribution, you can delete the text.
• Prefix My Replies with Short Header-style Attribution Lines - Inserts the From box, the Sent box, the To box, and the Subject box information from the original message in addition to the quoted text as specified in the Reply & Forward options.
  
  NOTE: If you use a default signature and want both the signature and the cursor to come before the quoted text, you must select Prefix My Replies with Short Header-style Attribution Lines under the Reply & Forward tab. This prevents the reply text and the signature block from being separated by quoted text.

News Attribution

Configurable options for News attributions are identical to those of Mail attributions with the addition of the Article variable. You can enter this variable as [ARTICLE], or select it from a drop-down list.