Easily quoting text in email responses

I work in a company that has a lot of mailing lists, and we have an unwritten rule about always quoting text we are talking about.

What I can't seem to find in ZD 7.1.2 is an easy way to copy a block of text from a responded-to email, and mark it up with > or | marks in my response.

I had a look in the Zimlet catalog, but there doesn't seem to be anything that allows you to do this.

What I would ideally like to do is:

1. Copy text from the email body
2. Paste it at the top of the email.
3. Select the text.
4. Click a button in the edit window (available in either HTML or Text modes) that puts > or | symbols at the beginning of each line.

An alternative to the last step is to have a context menu item that says "Paste Text as Quote"

Does anyone know of any Zimlets that might allow you to do this, or other ways of providing this functionality?

Cheers

@jaredmorgs

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Originally Posted by jaredmorgs

What I can't seem to find in ZD 7.1.2 is an easy way to copy a block of text from a responded-to email, and mark it up with > or | marks in my response.

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It does that automatically when you hit the Reply button and, depending on your preferences, will prefix the quoted text with '>' or '|' - or am I missing something in your question?

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Originally Posted by phoenix

It does that automatically when you hit the Reply button and, depending on your preferences, will prefix the quoted text with '>' or '|' - or am I missing something in your question?

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I have that feature activated in Preferences > All Accounts > Composing.

I have Use Prefix and Include Headers checked, and the prefix set to ">".

Zimbra is doing that correctly. It is formatting the original message that way with ">" marks.

But that is only in the reply text copied into the email when you click Reply. When you type a new message, and you want to include some text from other parts of the original message, this is where Zimbra Desktop could do with more features.

I would like a button on the toolbar that allows me to select a block of text, copy paste it, and mark it up automatically with > or | symbols.

Other email tools have a "Quote" button that will encapsulate the text, add > symbols, or indent and style the text so it is clearly a quote.

There is no such button or menu option in Zimbra Desktop to my knowledge.

The lack of this feature prevents me from using Zimbra for my work - so stuck with Thunderbird.
It supports R-click > "Paste As Quotation" which is the easiest and fastest way to do this.
I'm surprised such a basic functionality is not supported in Zimbra at all.