diff --git a/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/FragmentCompose.java b/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/FragmentCompose.java
index 1a9b68c30c..6d01d90188 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/FragmentCompose.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/FragmentCompose.java
@@ -4262,17 +4262,7 @@ public class FragmentCompose extends FragmentBase {
                                     // Limit number of nested block quotes
                                     boolean quote_limit = prefs.getBoolean("quote_limit", true);
                                     if (quote_limit)
-                                        for (Element bq : d.select("blockquote")) {
-                                            int level = 1;
-                                            Element parent = bq.parent();
-                                            while (parent != null) {
-                                                if ("blockquote".equals(parent.tagName()))
-                                                    level++;
-                                                parent = parent.parent();
-                                            }
-                                            if (level >= MAX_QUOTE_LEVEL)
-                                                bq.html("…");
-                                        }
+                                        HtmlHelper.quoteLimit(d, MAX_QUOTE_LEVEL);
                                 }
                             } else {
                                 // Selected text
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/HtmlHelper.java b/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/HtmlHelper.java
index 1dd691b2ca..866ae60e70 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/HtmlHelper.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/HtmlHelper.java
@@ -1989,6 +1989,20 @@ public class HtmlHelper {
         }
     }
 
+    static void quoteLimit(Document d, int maxLevel) {
+        for (Element bq : d.select("blockquote")) {
+            int level = 1;
+            Element parent = bq.parent();
+            while (parent != null) {
+                if ("blockquote".equals(parent.tagName()))
+                    level++;
+                parent = parent.parent();
+            }
+            if (level >= maxLevel)
+                bq.html("…");
+        }
+    }
+
     static boolean truncate(Document d, int max) {
         final int[] length = new int[1];