I have taken a big step in migrating away from my default windows 
desktop and have started using Mozilla for email (I've been using it for 
web browsing for a while).  I have made numerous tweaks to the 
configuration, but I cannot seem to find a setting to control one 
annoying feature.

When reading plain-text messages with "indented portions" or "quoted 
text" (where the left column contains ">"), the > is changed to a 
vertical bar.  I have found the controls to change the size and color of 
the bar, but I have not yet found a way to prevent this mangling of the 
display entirely...it's almost as bad as the replacement of "smilies" 
with cute little icons :-)

So...can the e-mail client that lets me disable external image downloads 
(a totally cool feature!) be configured to display plain ole' text 
e-mails unmolested?!?

Oh...and any "favorite configuration tweaks" would be appreciated as 
well, since I'm still coming up to speed.

One more question:  I'm really missing being able to go to the 
top/bottom of a message using the PageUp & PageDown keys.  Typically, 
when replying to a message, I'd get to the bottom of the text I wanted 
to quote, hit <shift><PageDown> to select the rest of the e-mail, then 
hit delete (or start typing) to "blow it away".  I can't do this in 
Mozilla, because the Page[Up|Down] keys won't move the cursor all the 
way to the beginning or end of an e-mail, so now I get to hit the 
Down-Arrow key over & over & over...I know I'm probably missing 
something really stupid, I just can't figure out what :-P

Thanks!

Charles Steinkuehler
charles@steinkuehler.net

BTW:  In case anyone cares, I was using Outlook Express.  While I was 
always very careful, and never once got bit by a virus or worm, I 
finally switched to Mozilla because of OE's tendency to crash.  The 
funny thing is *HOW* it would crash...apparently, specific HTML 
formatted emails (usually spam) would crash OE when *DOWNLOADING* 
e-mail!  When this happened, I would have to ssh into my mail server, 
manually edit the e-mail (changing text/html to text/plain), kill the 
lingering pop server thread (or wait for the TCP connection to timeout), 
and re-start OE.  I have no idea how folks without root access to their 
mailserver would get around this problem...<sigh>