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Changing the header before quoted text in Thunderbird

If you're like me, you've noticed that a bunch of other people helpfully put the date and time before quoted text in their messages:

On 12/21/2009 05:26 AM, Alex Dehnert wrote: 
> Foo Bar Baz

Meanwhile, you're left with the way less cool:

Alex Dehnert wrote: 
> Foo Bar Baz

This is pretty easy to change. Go to Edit -> Preferences. Select Advanced -> General -> Config Editor. Using the filter box, find mailnews.reply_header_type, double-click, and change the value to "2" instead of "1". (If you set it to "0" you'll apparently get no header, and if you set it to "3" you can use an even-more-customized header --- see the Tips & Tricks for details.

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