Mail signatures should be appended, not top posted.

1

Hi,

Netiquette implies that the mail signature should be at the bottom of the original text in a Reply or Forward, not at the top.

Please add an option to select the placement.

2

Actually Netiquette [1] itself doesn’t talk about top-posting or bottom-posting.

We are considering to include the following an option for replies:

  • Include the original text on the top
  • Include the original text on the bottom
  • Not include the original text at all

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855

3

I received a mail that doesn’t seem to be included here. This is the text:

Actually Netiquette [1] itself doesn’t talk about top-posting or bottom-posting.

We are considering to include the following an option for replies:

  • Include the original text on the top
  • Include the original text on the bottom
  • Not include the original text at all

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855

I sit corrected. I think these options are fantastic. Thanks.

4

Hey Filip, I was wondering if the options have been added. I cant find them in the client. If they have been added, could you please let me know where to find them? Thanks.

5

Is this option already implemented?

6

Still looking for the ability to bottom-post.

BTW, Filip, Netiquette actually DOES talk about bottom-posting on email lists:

3.1.1 General Guidelines for mailing lists and NetNews

  • If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
    summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just
    enough text of the original to give a context.
7

Any updates on the implementation of this?

8

Hello,
unfortunately this is not implemented yet. It is on our todo list and you can expect this feature in couple of months.

Regards,

George WIlson
eM Client

9

Hi George

I’m used to top posting and bottom signature. I just had to send an apology to the IETF http wg because when I enabled my sig, and replied to a message, it put the sig first thing (because I replied inside the text). So it just looked like an ad.

If placement will be optional in terms of where to reply, I’d suggest separate control over sig location.

Currently I either have to turn off the sig, or not do interleaved replies, or manually move the signature…

10

Hello! Do you want to wait another year for implement bottom-posting possibility? Make that at last, please!

11

It should be finally implemented in the upcoming version 6.

12

And when that version 6 will be released?
And what is so difficult to made bottom-posting option anyway?
I’m waiting for this option before I even start to using it in my office.

13

You can expect it in 2-3 months.

14

By the way, I have a workaround for this in the existing client. Not ideal but it stops me getting into trouble.

Setup templates for the different mail types: New, Reply, Forward. New has the signature, reply and forward don’t, this way I don’t repeat my signature in the wrong place.

HTH.

15

Hmmm, really? :slight_smile: But no, seriously - do you know when?

16

HEllo,

6th version should be out until end of autumn, probably in November.

with regards
Jan

17

Has this actually been implemented in Version 6? I can’t find such an option.

18

Me too, so I switch to different, proper email client.

19

Hi Franciszek,

Probably not the right place to ask this, but what is the proper email client you switched to? Every once in a while I look at alternatives, but I can’t find anything that has the gmail integration and other features that I like.

Regards.

20

This is humourous to me, as I just switched to eM Client from Opera 12 yesterday since it seems to be the closest thing to a “proper” e-mail client out there for Windows. Also because it supports CardDAV and CalDAV, which I have set up on a private server.I’d love to know what other people qualify as better.