Why does Thunderbird place text above the reply text?

[berryracer]

You know when you reply to someone's email.....in Outlook, it would put the text you are replying to beneath what you are typing and that makes sense since what you are typing obviously is going to be the newer part of the email...


But in thunderbird it places the old text you are replying to above what you are typing so when the other person gets your email they might get confused if they didn't scroll down to see that you have typed something.....

anyway to fix this?

[ronjor]

This article was written for Thunderbird but also applies to Mozilla Suite / SeaMonkey (though some menu sequences may differ).

When replying to messages, you may want your reply text to appear above (also known as top posting) or below the quoted text by default. This can be set differently for each account. Go to "Tools -> Account Settings", and then for the account you want to change select "Composition & Addressing". Using the drop-down list on the right, choose the reply position you want to use and click "OK". There is also an option to choose whether signature blocks should go at the very bottom of the message (the default), or directly beneath a top-posted response (above the quoted material). Note that if the signature is placed above a quoted message, the separator line ("-- ") is not used, as this would cause some mail clients to strip off everything below it upon replying.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reply_above_quoted_message

[berryracer]

Thanks ronjor....

here it is