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  <info>
    <desc>It is not possible to change the quotation introduction added when answering mail.</desc>
    
    <link type="guide" xref="index#common-mail-problems" />
    <link type="seealso" xref="mail-composer-reply" />
    <link type="seealso" xref="mail-composer-forward" />

    <revision pkgversion="3.3.91" version="0.4" date="2012-03-07" status="draft"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>

  </info>

<title>Changing the "On date, person wrote:" string when replying</title>

<p>Advanced users can change this string.</p>

<list>
<item><p>Open the <app>dconf-editor</app> application.</p></item>
<item><p>Navigate to <code>org.gnome.evolution.mail</code>.</p></item>
<item><p>Enter the prefered quotation string as the value for the key <gui>composer-message-attribution</gui>.</p></item>
</list>

<note style="info package">
  <p>You might need to install the <sys>dconf-editor</sys> package to perform these steps.</p>
  <if:choose>
    <if:when test="if:supports('action:install')">
      <p><link action="install:dconf-editor" href="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/dconf-editor/" style="button">Install dconf-editor</link></p>
    </if:when>
  </if:choose>
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