Re: [trinity-users] How to make kmail bottom-post by default?

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 03:55:06PM -0600, Leslie Turriff wrote: You shouldn't be bottom-posting any more than you should be top-posting. It is extremely frustrating for your readers to have to scroll past five or ten pages of quoted text to find a single line "I agree!!!" at the very bottom. And I'm not exaggerating, not even a little bit. I've seen this happen, many times. If I remember correctly, the worst case I bothered to count was *thirty-five pages*, from someone bottom- posting on a mailing list digest. Interleaved, in-line posting is best for extended discussions. Top- posting (as hated in Linux/Unix circles as it is) is good for short replies that don't lead to a long extended discussion. But bottom- posting is awful: it has all the disadvantages of top-posting, with none of the advantages. I'm running KMail 1.9 from KDE 3.5 (gosh, that's over a decade old!), and it defaults to quoting the replied message and putting the insertion point | at the front of the first quoted line, something like this: On Monday, John Doe wrote: |> blah blah blah blah For in-line posting, it is the writer's responsibility to move the insertion point to where they want to insert a comment, trimming any old commented text which no longer relevant. Kmail cannot do that for you: it can't tell where you want to start typing. If you go to the menu Settings > Configure KMail... then click the Composer icon, you may find something relevant. -- Steve