If you have quoted replies enabled, then the attribution line will appear above the quoted reply.
It normally looks something like this:
On Thu, 10 Sep 2019 3:15, Joe Bloggs wrote:
You can customize the attribution line by following these steps:
- Open Settings → Signature & Compose.
- Click the Compose options tab.
- Scroll down to the When replying section.
- Find the Reply Attribution option and enter your desired text into the field. You can use literal text, or you can use a pattern.
Control characters
If you would like to use a pattern in your reply attribution, you can use control characters.
Using the above example, this would look like:
On %a, %Y-%m-%d, %I:%M %p, %+n
wrote:
Sender details
%+f
— the sender's name and email address.%+n
— the sender's name (or email address, if no name is included).%+a
— the sender's email address.
Message time
%d
— the day of the month when the message was sent in mm-dd format (01-31).%e
— the day of the month when the message was sent in dd-mm format (31-01).%m
— the month when the message was sent in mm-yy format (01-12).%Y
— the year when the message was sent (4 digits).%y
— the year when the message was sent (last 2 digits).%H
— the hour when the message was sent (00-23).%I
— the hour when the message was sent (01-12).%k
— the hour when the message was sent (00-23).%l
— the hour when the message was sent (1-12).%p
— "AM" or "PM" when the message was sent. This will be localized to your language where possible.%M
— the minutes when the message was sent (00-59).%S
— the seconds when the message was sent (00-59).%A
— the weekday when the message was sent (Monday-Sunday).%a
— the abbreviated weekday when the message was sent (Mon-Sun).%B
— the month when the message was sent (January-December).%b
— the abbreviated month when the message was sent (Jan-Dec).%z
— the time zone offset for when the message was sent.
Some formats like %e
, %k
, %l
are always 2 characters wide, and include a leading space. This is designed to make it simpler to format strings. If you would like to remove this space, place a -
between the % and the letter, for example: %-e
, %-k
, %-l
.
%e
on the 6th day of the month produces6
%-e
on the 6th day of the month produces6
.
Other control characters
%n
— a new line.%%
— the percent sign.