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I want to configure mu4e citation style—the manner in which mu4e quotes the thread in a reply—so that it is compatible with Gmail's UI.

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Note the triple-dot collapsed style in the second message, where I replied through the UI.

There are the message contents:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" This style does On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:52 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > This style doesn't work > > [email protected] writes: > > > test >

I have tried setting (setq message-cite-style message-cite-style-gmail), but no luck.

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You need to customize message-citation-line-function. Something like this would help (it may require date formatting to please your needs):

(defun my/message-insert-citation-line () "Based off `message-insert-citation-line`." (when message-reply-headers (insert "On " (mail-header-date message-reply-headers) " ") (insert (mail-header-from message-reply-headers) " writes:") (newline) (newline))) (setq message-citation-line-function 'my/message-insert-citation-line)
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An alternative to the above:

(setq message-citation-line-format "On %d %b %Y at %R, %f wrote:\n")

followed by

(setq message-citation-line-function 'message-insert-formatted-citation-line)

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  • Apparently there's more to it than that, because sometimes this format works and sometimes it doesn't. I'm inspecting the payload and I can't find any substantial difference. So I'm not exactly sure what Google is doing. Commented Oct 9, 2018 at 13:05
  • I thought I had it nailed down finally with (setq message-citation-line-format "On %a, %b %d, %Y at %H:%M %p %f wrote:"), but now it's stopped working again. Commented Feb 8, 2019 at 21:13
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(with-eval-after-load 'message (setq message-cite-style message-cite-style-gmail) (setq message-citation-line-function 'message-insert-formatted-citation-line) (setq message-citation-line-format "On %a, %b %e, %Y at %I:%M %p %f wrote:")) (use-package messages-are-flowing :ensure t :hook ((message-mode . messages-are-flowing-use-and-mark-hard-newlines)))

This is something that is working for me so far. I have had so much trouble though. I am really dubious that it's going to work for all emails.

Also, I'm not using m4ue. I'm using notmuch and message mode so beware.

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