On Sun, 2024-12-01 at 10:04 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
>  The issue with this is what you have shown is what Thunderbird used
> to always show to identify who said what which I find extremely
> useful to understand response history and the context of replies.

Again, look through your preferences, and see if there are options
about hiding/muting/suppressing quoted text.  Various mail programs
have that option.

This email starts off with a line saying the date, time, and your name,
quotes one paragraph from you before my reply, and quotes one more
paragraph from you between the next one where I started with "Also,"
and the next I started with "My messages".

Also, leave a blank line between quotes and your replies.  It is very
hard to read mail when everything is just one huge block.

> I did a "view source" and after trawling through all the headers to
> get to what looks like your response there is no plain text and no
> html, it displays like encrypted data, there is nothing visible at
> all the matches your text.

My messages are sent as plain text.  And it was sent as 7-bit text. 
So, somewhere between me and you it has been converted.

Various mail servers try to be helpful doing that (turning things from
8-bit to 7-bit, vice versa, quoted-printable, base 64) when it's mostly
not necessary, and sometimes cause problems, when they bugger it up. 
Whereas a human would have been able to cope with an odd character
error here and there.

And I think Thunderbird creates a HTML render on the fly, but doesn't
change the content as it came in.

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