When you reply to an email in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client you are automatically positioned at the very bottom of the quoted email. Users who want to write the reply on top need to scroll up to get there before they can start writing the email. This is especially frustrating if the reply contains several messages already.
Mozilla Thunderbird offers a setting to change this behavior, which is fortunately for users like me who prefer to reply to messages on top of all other messages.
Thunderbird users find the setting in the Account Settings. A click on Tools > Account Settings opens the menu with all configured email accounts. It is necessary to make the change to every email account separately.
Locate Composition & Addressing below an email account and there the setting “Automatically quote the original message when replying”. A pulldown menu below reads “Then start reply below the quote”. Change that to “start my reply above the quote” to always start the reply above the quotes.
There is another option to place the email signature below the reply and not the quote.
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