Don't copy original email with response

[Ward Miller]

Using Thunderbird as my email handler in my new computer. When I Reply to an email, it attaches a copy of the original email to the reply. How do I stop that?

[Ray Tackett]

Ward, Look under "Tools", "Account Settings", "Composition and Addressing". Uncheck the box which says "Automatically quote the original message when replying".

My version of Thunderbird is older than yours, but I doubt it's any different in this regard.

[Ray Tackett]

Further to this, once you have made the change to the default, your composition window, under "Options", will have "Quote message" if you need to change your mind for a specific message.

[Ward Miller]

Ward, Look under "Tools", "Account Settings", "Composition and Addressing". Uncheck the box which says "Automatically quote the original message when replying".

My version of Thunderbird is older than yours, but I doubt it's any different in this regard.

Ray, mine is different and does not have that box to in-check.

[Scott Dyer HPN/NY]

Using Thunderbird as my email handler in my new computer. When I Reply to an email, it attaches a copy of the original email to the reply. How do I stop that?

Ward -- I'm using T'bird 52.9.1. Here's where I go: tools|account settings| composition and addressing. And here's what I see, as described by Ray: