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Changing the "On date, person wrote:" string when replying

Advanced users can change this string.

  • Open the dconf-editor application.

  • Navigate to org.gnome.evolution.mail.

  • Enter the preferred quotation string as the value for the key composer-message-attribution.

The default string in English is: "On ${AbbrevWeekdayName}, ${Year}-${Month}-${Day} at ${24Hour}:${Minute} ${TimeZone}, ${Sender} wrote:"

The following placeholders are available:

  • {Sender}

  • {SenderName}

  • {SenderEMail}

  • {AbbrevWeekdayName}

  • {WeekdayName}

  • {AbbrevMonthName}

  • {MonthName}

  • {Day} (format: 01-31)

  • { Day} (format: 1-31)

  • {24Hour}

  • {12Hour}

  • {AmPmUpper}

  • {AmPmLower}

  • {DayOfYear} (format: 1-366)

  • {Month} (format: 01-12)

  • {Minute}

  • {Seconds}

  • {2DigitYear} (e.g. 15 for the year 2015)

  • {Year}

  • {TimeZone}

You might need to install the dconf-editor package to perform these steps.