How To Start Replies On Top Of Quotes In Thunderbird Email Client
When you reply to an email in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client the cursor is 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 Account Settings which holds information about all email accounts that you have added to the client. There you find listed all your email addresses and settings specific to them.
A click on Tools > Account Settings opens the preferences menu displaying all configured email accounts. It is necessary to make the change to every email account separately unfortunately.
Locate Composition & Addressing below an email account and there the setting "Automatically quote the original message when replying".
You can disable that if you don't want messages to be quoted at all by default.
A pulldown menu below reads "Then, start my reply below the quote". Change that to "start my reply above the quote" to always start the reply above the quotes. Doing so will move the cursor to the top of the compose window so that you can start writing right away without having to move the cursor to the top before you can do so.
There is another option to place the email signature below the reply and not the quote. This may make sense as well as it may be overlooked otherwise if there is a lot of quoted text already.
Repeat the process for all email accounts configured in Thunderbird to change the preference for all of them.
Once done, try to reply to an email to make sure that the new setting is configured correctly.
You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!