How could Microsoft have released a mail client without Internet-standard features such as signatures or “>” quoted replies? Are they on drugs?
The email world is much, much larger than the Internet. The Microsoft Exchange mail client sends Internet mail only through an installed MAPI service provider, such as the Microsoft Plus! Internet Mail service or the Netscape Internet Mail service, or through the graces of a gateway such as the Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector; its reply and quoting mechanisms are designed to work in a different world. While I wish that the Plus! Internet Mail service included these features, at least it gave me an excuse to write something useful. (Note that the client released with Microsoft Exchange Server supports signatures, and the Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector can munge indented rich text replies to prefix them with bracket characters. See the release notes accompanying your copy of Exchange Server.
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