I confirmed that this happens with Evolution 3.22.6 and Outlook 2016. The culprit appears to be the tag Evolution uses to quote the original message: <blockquote type="cite">[original message]</blockquote> I did a quick search for the type="cite" attribute and found very little about it other than it doesn't seem to be part of any standard that Outlook should be expected to adhere to. It was/is used by Thunderbird and has caused similar problems to the one you're experiencing (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183219). Does anyone know more about this type="cite" attribute and why Evolution uses it for quotes? On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 11:05 +0200, Martin Dietze wrote:
Like probably many others I use Evolution in a vastly Outlook-dominated environment. Sometimes (shame on me) I reply to HTML mails in HTML (e.g. when I don't want to add confusion by removing inline images etc.). I however don't top-post, i.e. put my replies under quotes. Lately colleagues have started complaining because they cannot distinguish between quoted text and my replies. After checking I found out that quoited text from Evolution is displayed in Outlook simply as indented text, and this is indeed very confusing. Why does the blue bar on the left does not display in Outlook as in the editor when composing my reply? As this is now, the feature is pretty unusable, because I need to pimp quoted text using some formatting (underline, italic etc.) to make it distinguishable from my reply. I could not find any setting that would allow me to change this behaviour. I am using Evolution 3.20. Bug or feature? (and, no, I cannot really tell about 100 colleagues to set up Outlook in some particular way or tell Microsoft to fix their crappy software)
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