How to remove Greater Than symbol > in email replies

I only see it when i reply to a message in plain text. It must be a built in function of Exchange and related to received emails in plain text. When i look in my sent box, only emails that I received as plain text have the greater then symbol in the reply. This goes for emails that i replied with using the iPhone and using Outlook on a PC.

Emails that are formatted (RTF i guess) indent the original instead of the greater then symbol.

The symbols are put there by MS exchange. Let me guess, something like this;

Doe, John <jon.doe@exchange.com>

Is that kind of what you see for their address?

Gmail also does something similar with the real name out front and the actual address in the symbols.

Message was edited by: Randy Fast

The way that email responses are quoted is dependent on the email program itself. So, in Mac Mail, for example, quoted originals are indented with a vertical bar along the side. The same might be shown in other programs with ">" symbols along each line. In Outlook, it could be any of a variety of ways.

In Mac Mail, there's a preference setting for "increase the quote level" for emails being quoted, so that each email in a chain of replies is indented further. But if I look at the raw source for such an email, it shows not the vertical bar but rather a ">" symbol next to each line. So Mail is interpreting the > symbol as an instruction to indent, despite the fact that the "real" email itself has > symbols.

Find the setting in Outlook and you may find the cause of what you're seeing. The problem is that the standard for quoting is the > symbol, so plain text versions will generally show the symbol, while interpreted formats will show whatever the email program is set to.

I don't see a greater than symbol in my replies. Instead, I see the email to which I'm replying indented. Where are you seeing the > symbol?