Tools > Account Settings > Composition & addressing for the mail account

• Select: Compose messages in HTML format
• select: Automatically quote the original message when replying
• select: 'start my reply above the quote' or other option

if you have a signature:

• select: place my signature 'below my reply (above the quote) or other option
• select: include signature for replies
• select: include my signatur for forwards
• click on OK to save changes

There is the option to reply quoting only specifc sections of the email. If you preselect/ highlight any text in the email and then use Reply, you are instructing Thunderbird to only quote highlighted text. This is also the same for printing.

There is the option to reply quoting only specific sections of the email. If you preselect/ highlight any text in the email and then use Reply, you are instructing Thunderbird to only quote highlighted text. This is also the same for printing.

There is a way to turn this off when replying. That I what I want to know. I had set this on my old computer but don't recall how to do it and can't find the old message.

Tools > Options > Advanced > General tab click on Config Editor button in top search type: reply look for this line: mailnews.reply_quoting_selection; Value = true

double click on this line to toggle 'True' to 'false'

do the same for this line: mailnews.reply_quoting_selection.multi_word; Value = true

then close using top right X click on OK to save changes to Options