Reply opens with indent and vertical lines. How to avoid them for good.

Question

In TB when I click reply, a message that I am replying to opens with vertical blue lines on the left and right (indent vertical lines) and with a heading like this:
On 05/12/14 11:21 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Is there an easy setup to avoid getting the lines forever and always get senders' headers in my replies like this:
From:
To:
Sent:
Subject:
I honestly spent almost 3 hrs but found some rather complicated and uncertain solutions. In my mind it should be as simple as putting or removing a check mark in some set up tabs.
if you can help, pls give detailed step-by-step info so even I can manage to do it.
thx a lot

Answer 1

Matt. thank you
you are right, those vertical lines have disappeared but I got
>
>
>
instead.
Is there an easy setup to avoid getting the lines and/or > > on each line of recipient email forever and always get full senders' headers in my replies like this:
From:
To:
Sent:
Subject:
I was a happy user of outlook express, but now I got a new PC with windows 8 which does not support OE.
I am a Thunderbird newbie and it is extremely strange and frustrating.
Why not to offer all possible choices, options, and settings to make it adaptable and easy for each user with particular needs or preferences?
I would gladly pay $50 or $100 instead of wasting 20 or 30 hours trying to find a way to bypass weird (to me) restrictions or missing settings.
If OE resolved the problems, it should be possible to resolve for Thunderbird creators too.
I am grateful anyway for the free app but I may need to waste even more days experimenting with other email clients.
Trying to solve the problems I found that other Thunderbird users have been looking for the same solutions on the internet for over 8 years or so!!!
Another huge problem of the TB is difficulty of getting a full HTML source, editing it and easily switching to text mode back and forth.
And finally why not make every piece of text in any spot of the entire TB copy-able (let us copy any words or text anywhere in the TB and then paste it to a message). For example I can set up and see all headers ( view ... headers..... all ) but I can not copy/paste them into the message from which they were removed (why?).
If Thunderbird creators ever read this, here is an offer or kind request. Pls create a better Thunderbird version with features and options given above, consult other users, search the Internet to accommodate a few wishes of many others. And offer a paid version of the Thunderbird. I think hundreds of thousands of unhappy users would buy a better mousetrap, or in this case, a better Thunderbird. The news will spread like a thunder all over ....
It is a win-win-win opportunity to make everybody happy, cut wasted time, improve experience and satisfaction, and make $$$$$$$ at the same time!