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Recently, I have gotten back into using my own pop3 email accounts instead of web services such as [url=http://www.hotmail.com]hotmail[/url] and [url=http://www.gmail.com]gmail[/url].

The software I use for this purpose is Mozilla's brilliant [url=http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/]Thunderbird[/url]. One thing I didn't like about Thunderbird was it's method of replying to emails. It's default format was something like this:[code]xxx@zzz.com wrote:
| This is the first email
| From the person
| who you want to
| reply to

And this is your reply
[Signature][/code]

I wasn't happy with this and trawled through the options for an alternative style. I found nothing so had a quick [url=http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&hs=Trs&q=thunderbird+configuration+editor&btnG=Search&meta=]google[/url] and found the Config Editor ([b]Tools>Options>Advanced>General>Config Editor[/b]). In here are many configuration options similar to that what you get by typing [b]about:config[/b] into your navigation bar on firefox.

The key we are looking for is [i]mail.identity.default.reply_on_top[/i]. By default this is set to [b]0[/b] but if we change it to [b]1[/b] then our new reply is on top. You can also set this preference on a per-identity basis using the keys [i]mail.identity.id1.reply_on_top[/i] by replacing [b]id1[/b] with the id you want to change.

This is what our format looks like now:[code]Our reply is up here now

xxx@zzz.com wrote:
| This is the first email
| From the person
| who you want to
| reply to

[Signature][/code]

As you can see though, our signature is still located at the bottom of the email and could easily be lost after more than 1 or two emails have been sent back and forward. To change this, fire up the configuration editor once more and locate the following key:
[i]mail.identity.default.sig_bottom[/i]

Change this key to [b]false[/b]to complete our changes and have our emails read properly. Once again, this can be set on a per-identity basis using the keys starting from [i]mail.identity.id1.sig_bottom[/i]

And here is our final result:[code]Our reply is up here now

[Signature]

xxx@zzz.com wrote:
| This is the first email
| From the person
| who you want to
| reply to
[/code]

I hope you find this useful as it is knowledge that was hard to find but I feel that I will be using alot in the future!

Thanks
Stephen