Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> Great it works like expected thanks a lot!!!

You are welcome.


> [1]  the indent feature I regularly use (and so does RMS)

FWIW, until five years ago or so RMS had been using an ancient style of indent-only (no ‘>’), that is, he might be viewed as being in a prolonged transition to a conventional one.

> because it makes the quotes more visible.

Why do not you embed in your mail a CSS style, where quotes are highlighted with a favourite colour for quotes instead, I wonder? ;-)

Both approaches are equally fundamentally broken in their premise, but the latter is at least easy ignorable recipient-side.

> Some mail readers have difficulties with [recognizing idiosyncratic quoting styles]

Indeed.