Thunderbird - Reply Above Quote Doesn't Work

Thanks for the workaround, I thought I was going a bit coo coo.

As a new TB-user it's so nice that people like you give people like me a helping hand

Thanks a lot

Thank you very much. You have no idea how crazy the default placement of quotes in Thunderbird was making me!!

I'm running Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 on Win XP Pro w/SP3 and the suggestions for 3.x didn't stick, but the mail.identity.id1.sig_bottom suggestion for 2.x did - thank you very much!

One additional thing I did - the double hyphen disappeared when I changed that config setting so I added it back to the top of my signature manually. No biggie!

I do not see the Tools > Options > Advanced > Select the "General" tab on my Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 any help?

I'm using the same version of Thunderbird. You might not be seeing the menu options because of the way they are laid out graphically.

Here's a screenshot of Tools -> Options with the "Config Editor" button circled in red:

I was very grateful to find this tutorial, but unfortunately, whether I have the booleen to "false", I have closed and reopened TB, and still get the same signature placement.

I am on a Vista 32 Ultimate SP1

Thanks a million for that fix.

I'm on TB 2.0.0.19 which does allow the signature to be positioned above the quote but below my reply in all the major accounts I created.

However....

I had one account where I wanted to use the same account for two identities via the "Manage Identities" option. Setting the signature to above quote and below reply in the managed additional identity *did not stick*. Even when "OK'd" and saved.

This cured it.

Cheers!

I also was going crazy over this.

However, this advice you listed didn't work until I also switched the "sig_bottom" for the "default" line (not just the "id1" one for my account) to false.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Hi, it's me again. This didn't work for when I forwarded e-mails. My signature would still be on the bottom. Any advice?

Many thanks for the detailed steps of the work around.

Thank you for this workaround, I have an image as my signature, so frequently I was copy/pasting it to the correct spot before sending a message, which bothered me quite a bit. Now it works like a charm.

Can't thank you enough...

Thanks heaps!!!

When I choose "add my reply above the quote" it places my signature above the quote, but when I choose "below my reply" it doesn't work. What to do?

So Thunderbird not saving its settings is definitely a bug...

Placing the signature at the bottom of the mail got very ugly and confusing with longer correspondence.

Thank you for sharing your workaround so that I can permanently change the default behavior now.

D.

Thank you so much for the Thunderbird sig placement workaround.

I'm using TB version 2.0.0.22 on a dual Athlon Win XP Pro SP3 system.

Here's a tip to help eliminate tearing your hair out: after applying the workaround - Do NOT access the TOOLS -> ACCOUNT SETTINGS -> MANAGE IDENTITIES window as outlined under "Thunderbird signature placement options" above.

Although I applied the change to the Default and id1 sig_bottom parameters, the change only stays put in the Default param. Accessing the TOOLS etc window seems to cause the id1.sig_bottom parameter to revert back to the "true" setting.

Leave well enough alone, I guess.

Thanks again.

Unfortunately in my new job the only preloaded email client on site was Outlook Express (useless). Thunderbird seems like a much better option, but when I could not place my signature where I wanted, it was amazingly frustrating.

Thank you SO very much for your one, last tip on this process of manually changing the setting... restart Thunderbird. I really thought nothing was going to fix this problem, and then TADA, it works. Sometimes working on a problem for so long makes you forget all of the simple fixes.

Once again thank you for all of your time and knowledge!

Thank you for this solution to the problem - it was driving me crazy!

Instead of searching for 'mail.identity.id' simply search for 'bottom' (obviously no ') and it lists all addresses.

I finally got around to using a pretty signature and this site helped me make it right.

I hope Thunderbird 3 fixes all these petty problems once and for all.

Thank you!

I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for this well-written and helpful article. I do support for a major University and through your article (Googled) I was able to help a user a lot more than I would have been able otherwise. Great!!

J.S.

In 2.0.0.23 it actually works properly to use the Account Settings dialog to set the "above the quote" option.

But still, I totally agree that it's really nice how people make an effort to assist people in solving apparently unsolvable and annoying problems!

Thanks, just what I was looking for.

How does one "reply" with a heading something like:

On 12/28/2009 at 05:30:23 PM, "SenderNickname" wrote the following: I can't figure out the config parameters!

Thank you in advance, A.B.

It's just plain irritating!! Do they do this just to mess with people?? I just absolutely DO NOT understand the mentality of posting a reply beneath a quote!! As if I wanted to re-read everything and make more work for myself by scrolling all the way to the bottom just to read a reply.

Quotes go below, so that the reader may instantly read your reply. They already know what the conversation is and do not need to re-read it every single freaking time!

*waves fist in air*

Anyway, thanks for posting this. Thunderbird is now fixed and working PROPERLY!

Hey thank you so much! This workaround works great. For Mac OSX users its a slightly different route to get to the General tab. Go to Thunderbird/Preferences instead of Tools/Options. Otherwise works like a charm. Thank you, thank you.

Thanks. Worked like a charm for me.

Thanks... this was driving me insane!! considering that the conventional way of reading emails is latest mail at the top... the default Thunderbird way is kinda silly... having to scroll all the way to the bottom is kinda silly!