Be it personal or business uses, we’ve to deal with at least a few emails every day. Here is a list of all syntax from the plugin’s ‘help’ tab in its configuration dialog.No matter how everything evolves so rapidly on the internet, email is always the primary method of communication. Here is my preferred email reply header in my Thunderbird. In the configuration dialog, you can configure the style that you like as the one in the figure “Thunderbird Change Quote Reply Format to Outlook-like style”. The plugin has a pre-configured reply header style. Use the pre-configured reply header style After downloading it, you can install it by the “Install add-ons from files” function in Thunderbird’s “Add-ons manager” You can download it from the homepage of the change quote and reply format plugin. The “change quote and reply format” plugin Please note that the version 0.8.7.1 only works for Thunderbird up to certain versions. Use the “change quote and reply format” plugin One example of how the format looks like in Thunderbird 60 in Linux is in the screenshot as follows. Remember to select the “Use HTML” option and unselect the Replace line breaks with
because we already use the HTML ‘’ to control the line breaks.

I do this because I would like to control the font size. Note that the %cursor% is within the tag. Remember to select the “Apply the following template to the replied message” and “Use instead of default quote header” options. The “Variable” tab on the right side of the dialog gives detailed descriptions of the variables used here. This is the key part to compose the “Outlook style” header. Here is my Quote Header style for reply emails. After installing it, you need to configure it by using the configuration tool found from menu “Tools -> Add-ons Preferences -> SmartTemplate4”.Ĭonfigure SmartTemplate4 Here is a screenshot of the configurations and parameters I use. Install SmartTemplate4 You can search and install the Plugin in Thunderbird Add-ons management page. It support HTML which is expressive enough to compose the Outlook like email header. It is powerful to change the reply header of the Thunderbird emails and hence be able to “modify” the reply header. The SmartTemplat4 plugin is actually an email template plugin. Use the “SmartTemplate4” plugin (non-free)

The following are other choices I ever used before for a historical reference. Other choices to customize reply email headers Together with the “Change quote and reply format” plugin, this can generate outlook style reply emails which looks good for HTML emails. The ReFwdFormatter plugin remove the “>” prefix from quote in the reply.

Thunderbird mail themes