I know that I am not responding to the latest message in the "conversation" I am doing so intentionally, because the message to which I am replying is the one which contains the text and headers to which I wish to reply.
"(i) You are not responding to the latest message in this conversation.
When I do so, the Outlook compose window pops up an informational notice bar above the "Send" / "To." / "Cc." / Subject fields, reading (modulo graphics vs. I frequently have occasion to return to a previous message in a given thread (often enough, even one which I myself wrote) and reply to that message - so that the headers of the reply (from To/Cc to Reply-To to References and In-Reply-To) are set correctly, with all the consequences which follow from that, and so that the text I want to reply to is part of the "first" message which Outlook shows me in the quoted history of the top-posted stack. This is a lot of manual work, compared to using an E-mail client which handles proper quoting automatically, but it is far preferable to having to deal with or engage in top-posting and the consequences which result from that. I have Outlook configured to prefix a '>' symbol to every quoted line when replying to a message I manually move my signature from the top of the reply to the bottom of the message I'm replying to, either delete the text of earlier replies from the bottom of the top-posted stack or manually move that text to its proper top-to-bottom-old-to-new place in the reading order of the quoted part of the message (and add further '>' symbols so that each line has one such symbol for each time it was included in a reply between its original message and the one I'm writing), and write each part of my reply on new lines inserted below the part of the quoted text to which that part of my reply is responding. I do not follow the Outlook default practice of top-posting, which I consider horrendous and almost always inappropriate. I don't actually want some of the "conversations" features, but this is the closest thing to a proper threaded message display that Outlook seems to offer, as far as I've been able to find.įor background, so that you can understand where I am encountering the behavior which I consider a problem, and why I consider it a problem: I have Outlook configured to display the thread pane in what I think is some variant of what Outlook calls "conversations" mode. The organization has disabled the Feedback Hub and related features, so as far as I can tell, there's no place in Outlook to submit feedback on the product I am therefore falling back to here. I am running Outlook 2019, in an organizational environment.
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