No, you cannot do email quoting in OWA. That being said, you can use Firefox with the It's All Text! add-on to open the text in a text editor and then add the quoting prefix there. From Fix Outlook Quoting Style:
In OWA, choose to reply to a message. Horribly quoted message text appears.
Use It’s All Text or some other similar tool to open message text in a reasonably smart editor.
Filter entire message text through this script. E.g. in Vim type :%!path-to-script.rb
, after making the script executable of course.
Replace original mesage text with output of filter. If using It’s All Text, just type :wq
.
Presto! Correctly quoted message. You might have to move your sig, though.
That’s how to use it, now here’s the script:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Fix outlook quoting. Inspired by perl original by Kevin D. Clark.
# This program is meant to be used as a text filter. It reads a plaintext
# outlook-formatted email and fixes the quoting to the "internet style",
# so that::
#
# -----Original Message-----
# [from-header]: Blah blah
# [timestamp-header]: day month etc
# [...]
#
# message text
#
# or::
#
# ___________________________
# [from-header]: Blah blah
# [timestamp-header]: day month etc
# [...]
#
# message text
#
# becomes::
#
# On day month etc, Blah blah wrote:
# > message text
#
# It's not meant to alter the contents of other peoples' messages, just to
# filter the topmost message so that when you start replying, you get a nice
# basis to start from.
require 'date'
require 'pp'
message = ARGF.read
# split into two parts at the first reply delimiter
# match group so leaves the delim in the array,
# this gets stripped away in the FieldRegex if's else clause
msgparts = message.split(/(---*[\w\s]+---*|______*)/)
# first bit is what we've written so far
mymsg = msgparts.slice!(0)
# rest is the quoted message
theirmsg = msgparts.join
# this regex separates message header field name from field content
FieldRegex = /^\s*(.+?):\s*(.+)$/
from = nil
date = nil
theirbody = []
theirmsg.lines do |line|
if !from || !date
if FieldRegex =~ line
parts = line.scan(FieldRegex)
if !from
from = parts.first.last
elsif !date
begin
DateTime.parse(parts.first.last)
date = parts.first.last
rescue ArgumentError
# not a parseable date.. let's just fail
date = " "
end
end
else
# ignore non-field, this strips extra message delims for example
end
else
theirbody << line.gsub(/^/, "> ").gsub(/> >/, ">>")
end
end
puts mymsg
puts "On #{date}, #{from} wrote:\n"
puts theirbody.join("")