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I worked in a M$-Shop for a long time. It was a huge problem there because Ms Outlook didn't do inline correctly. The inline text was in another color. And using a Linux Client you could only get the plaintext version without the color in it :( .

Basically I had to use a VM just to understand the mail correctly.

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So using colors is bad? What is the right way to do inline? Or is the problem that Exchange wouldn't let your Linux client get the full version?

It's not the colour per se. Some email clients when not using plain text end up formatting your reply in the same style and colour as the quoted texted. The formatting may get lost on other email clients.

This is why I always use plain text so I get '>' infront of each line of quoted text.

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