On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 03:55:06PM -0600, Leslie Turriff wrote:
> Is there a way to tell kmail to do this?
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
> blah 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
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