How to configure Kmail's composer to use "quoted text" when replying to messages

[kallikles2003]

In a recent upgrade to 9.04, my Kmail installation lost the ability to quote the text of messages I reply to.
I tried to modify the composer templates to restore Kmail to its past behavior, but I cannot find any way to indicate "quoted text" in the templates. All I can see in the dropdown menu for "Standard Templates>>Insert command>>Original Message" is "Message Text as Is," which behaves as expected. There seems to be no "Quoted Message Text" or some similar command.
Is there some magic trick to have the text of the original message displayed as quoted?

Thanks,

Stefano

[mehmor]

Re: How to configure Kmail's composer to use "quoted text" when replying to messages

To insert the original e-mail's body in a reply message, you should put '%QUOTE' command in the Reply to Sender template.

Hope that helps.

[tnorris]

Re: How to configure Kmail's composer to use "quoted text" when replying to messages

You might try looking under identities->Templates for "meaningful" templates to be used in Kmail. I have a similar problem to yours that when I first setup KMail the standard templates show up "meaningfully" and then at some point they just disappeared.

For what it's worth, here's the ones I have setup now

New Message

%REM="Default new message template"%-
%BLANK

Reply to Sender

%REM="Default reply template"%-
%CURSOR

On %ODATE %OTIMELONG you wrote:
%QUOTE

Reply to All

%REM="Default reply all template"%-
%CURSOR

On %ODATE %OTIMELONG %OFROMNAME wrote:
%QUOTE

Forward Message

%REM="Default forward template"%-

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

Subject: %OFULLSUBJECT
Date: %ODATE
From: %OFROMADDR
To: %OTOADDR

%TEXT
-------------------------------------------------------

I think I dug those out of one of the KMail rc files a while back.

[kallikles2003]

Re: How to configure Kmail's composer to use "quoted text" when replying to messages

Thanks to all for the informative answers.
%QUOTE is the command I needed. I am not sure why it is not one of the options in the pop-up list. I'll make sure I'll wite it down somewere and have it handy next time an update messes up Kmail's templates.


Cheers,

S.