If you’re like me, you’re stuck with Outlook at work because your company runs an Exchange server. Sure Exchange has IMAP and POP support, but it’s never quite the same as using outlook.
You’ve mostly tamed Outlook, except for one small problem. All your programmer colleagues insist on using plain-text messages. And when you use Outlook’s plain-text reply facilities, you get super frustrated by it’s inability to quote and re-flow messages correctly.
Sure there’s Outlook-QuoteFix, but it doesn’t work very reliably, and it still get some cases wrong.
Well I’ve hacked up an attempt at fixing this problem. For the impatient, click here to download OutlookSmartQuote 0.5.
This is a 30 minute attempt at packaging up something that I’ve gotten fairly reliably working on my own machine.
It’s based on the QuoteFix macro but instead of using Outlook’s crappy reflow algorithm, I implemented my own in python. So yes, you need a python interpreter, and you need to tell the macros about where they are (see the install.txt file in the zip file for details) but the end result is IMHO much better quoting.
It’s still very basic, and I’m sure the install document sucks and is missing a bunch of stuff I forgot to write down, but hopefully someone will find it useful.

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