Thunderbird - Reply Above Quote Doesn't Work

Placing your signature immediately below your reply

Are you trying to set your Thunderbird email settings such that your signature is placed right below your reply (instead of at the bottom of the entire email)? This would seem the logical place to me, as I'm not sure how many people want to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the message each time they need to access your contact information. Nevertheless, Thunderbird considers the recommended setting to be to place the signature below the quote. You can edit this option as follows:

Thunderbird signature placement options

To set where Thunderbird places your signature (either immediately below your reply, "above the quote", or "below the quote"), browse to the following settings options:

• Tools -> Account Settings -> Select your identity
• Click the "Manage Identities" button at bottom right
• Select your identity and click the "edit" button
• Select the "Composition & Addressing" tab
• Under "Composition", check "Automatically quote the original message when replying", followed by "start my reply above the quote", and place my signature "above the quote"

This setting should cause Thunderbird to insert your signature below your reply, not below the quote, and therefore get buried at the bottom of the message. I can see why, in a discussion list format, it's more useful to place lengthy signatures at the end so they don't get in the way of a conversation. But when you're composing professional emails it's important to have your contact information readily available, especially when new people get added to the message half-way through.

Thunderbird 2.x identity signature options aren't saved

This option worked as intended in earlier versions of Thunderbird, and continues to work again in the upcoming Thunderbird 3.x release. However, in the 2.x version we currently have installed (2.0.0.16), it doesn't work. Specifically, when we select the "above the quote" setting for placing the signature, the setting is not saved. It automatically resets to "place my signature below the quote (recommended)". The workaround for this, if you're reading this before the Thunderbird 3.x release, is as follows:

• Tools > Options > Advanced > Select the "General" tab
• Click on the "Config Editor" button at bottom right to reveal a window with your preferences.
• Type "mail.identity.id" into the search bar to reveal a listing of e-mail identities.
• Find the entry containing your identities e-mail address (they are listed numerically from top to bottom in your account settings). For example, "mail.identity.id1.useremail" will correspond to your first identity.
• Find the "mail.identity.id1.sig_bottom" entry.
• If it reads "true", double-click on it to switch it to "false"

Voila This overrode the setting that you were unable to adjust using the navigation windows. Your signature should now be placed immediately below your reply (if it doesn't, close and open Thunderbird).