I’m sorry but I seem to be missing something. I paste block quotes all the time with just an extra click. Paste produces this screen and I select the quote symbol. Then whatever email program the recipient has, will interpret the block quote as they are setup. Are you talking about something else? If so what? Here’s what I get when I paste text.
OK, so it IS there - dumb that it is not alongside Paste and Paste As Text. It adds an unnecessary extra step, and there should be consistency - internally and with other applications - and I have never seen paste-as-quote done this way before
When I search for “quote” in the help nothing comes up and when I search the community forum for quote the first relevant listing is this thread - so it isn’t like this behaviour is obvious
You can add the “Paste” icon on the Toolbar as @steveshank example above via the “Customize” option (at the end of the toolbar).
Ps I don’t personally don’t think this 2 step option (Paste as Quote) is a problem as like similar to when you “Paste and Image” in eM Client, if you eg: want to resize and image after pasting, you first paste the image and then click the image to give you all the size (Small / Medium or Large) options.
What about situations when there user A sends message,
user B replies,
user A replies,
user B replies again
and so on.
This is mess.
Example:
Apple Mail on macOS
Is there something I’m doing wrong?
Example 2:
eM client on Windows
Very disappointed/baffled to see there is no quoting ability in eM Client, as I trial it.
Having to use paste as quote is not great, because what if you aren’t pasting something? You have to type it, copy it, paste it, then change the pasting type.
And some people use quote formatting to just make text stand out. Clicking “quote” is a standard way to do this.
I personally find the paste as quote feature workaround does not work anyway - it just pastes the text as normal.
What’s more, apparently quotes don’t show in conversation view as well. You get 3 dots you have to click to expand a quote. - Block Quotes hidden - Mail - eM Client
This is a really strange design choice, and will undoubtedly cause readers of e-mails to miss things. Because why would I the receiver of an e-mail expect to have to expand something to see the content?
Further, why would I the sender of en e-mail expect the receiver not to see all the content I send easily?
This is a ‘feature’ that has been severly lacking in the app
I was just looking for this feature, and doesn’t appear to be implemented yet.
It would be super helpful
Yeah, I see the contextual menu option for Paste as Quote on the Windows version of eM Client, but for the life of me, I cannot find that same option anywhere on the Mac version. Am I missing something?
Yeah, I see the contextual menu option for Paste as Quote on the Windows version of eM Client, but for the life of me, I cannot find that same option anywhere on the Mac version. Am I missing something?
Yes the Mac version of eM Client (even the latest V10.0.2622) doesn’t appear to have the below “Paste as Quote” popup window option to select “after pasting Text” like eM Client for Windows does. I cannot see it either on my Mac. Might be not implemented yet or is a bug.
Baffling there is STILL not an option to format text as a quote, over 10 YEARS since this was requested.
To get quote formatting, you have to type text out, cut it, paste it, then choose “format as quote”… instead of just hitting a “quote” button.
Can you please make a button to format text as a quote?
Better quoting would be good. The auto quoting on replies is a bit awkward to use - it often takes a bit of messing to break apart the quoted part to insert your reply especially at the end of a quoted message where you often end up with an empty quoted line at the end.
It totally does not work when you copy a quoted section from one message to another, the quoting vanishes.
There seems to be no way to quote/include other messages than the one you are replying to (no insert message on the edit pane menu). I often need to add parts of other messages to answer a question. Same with included messages there is no end of message (just beginning) so have to add that so people can tell I continued after the message.
I’d extend the formatting request beyond quoting. There are tools for formatting messages in html but none for plain text and the macOS text tools (and additions) do not work in emclient. Ones I use a lot I have to copy the text to a textedit window to format it then copy it back.
10 years later and this feature still doesn’t exist…
The paste as quote option for Mac has now been added & is working in the later eM Client V10.1.4588 via the release history page if you don’t have that newer version already.
Hard to believe this only has 7 likes (one by me today) since 2014.
Being able to mark text as a quote is pretty fundamental in an email client. Can it be hard to code? I imagine that there are many users who do not read or post here who would like and benefit from this feature.
A sore shortcoming in an otherwise excellent program. Would you consider adding it to the Windows version?
The new paste as quote feature is nice, but there should really just be a quote button in the formatting toolbar, so you can select text and then click the quote button, like in any other word processor.
Currently, to quote something I have to highlight it | copy the text | and then overwrite it with right click | paste as quote.
A lot of steps for something that should be as simple as: Highlight text and then click the quote button.
