diff --git a/components/email/__tests__/reply-quote-collapse.test.ts b/components/email/__tests__/reply-quote-collapse.test.ts
index 86c22986c..eeb00d1a8 100644
--- a/components/email/__tests__/reply-quote-collapse.test.ts
+++ b/components/email/__tests__/reply-quote-collapse.test.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import Paragraph from '@tiptap/extension-paragraph';
 import { trailingParagraphBreakRule } from '../paragraph-breaks';
 import { QuotedHtml, buildQuotedHtmlBlock, serializeEditorContent } from '../quoted-html';
 import { SignatureBlock, buildSignatureBlock } from '../signature-block';
-import { ReplyQuoteCollapse, markReplyQuoteHeader } from '../reply-quote-collapse';
+import { ReplyQuoteCollapse, markReplyQuoteHeader, userTextEnd } from '../reply-quote-collapse';
 
 const HEADER = markReplyQuoteHeader('<div>On Monday, Bob wrote:<br></div>');
 const ORIGINAL = '<p>Original message</p><img src="cid:logo"><blockquote>Earlier reply</blockquote>';
@@ -168,3 +168,49 @@ describe('reply quote visibility', () => {
     expect(toggle()).toHaveAttribute('aria-expanded', 'false');
   });
 });
+
+// compose-p2-3: a click under the folded quote used to put the caret on the
+// empty last line, below the hidden original, where the text went unseen.
+describe('a click in a reply with a folded quote', () => {
+  const click = (e: Editor, pos: number) => {
+    let handled = false;
+    e.view.someProp('handleClick', (handler) => { handled = handler(e.view, pos, new MouseEvent('click')) || handled; return handled; });
+    return handled;
+  };
+  const lastPos = (e: Editor) => e.state.doc.content.size - 1;
+
+  it('puts the caret at the end of the text above the quote', () => {
+    const e = mount();
+    expect(e.state.doc.lastChild?.type.name).toBe('paragraph');
+    expect(click(e, lastPos(e))).toBe(true);
+    expect(e.state.selection.from).toBe(1 + 'My response'.length);
+    expect(toggle()).toHaveAttribute('aria-expanded', 'false');
+  });
+
+  it('keeps the click where it was once the quote is shown', () => {
+    const e = mount();
+    toggle().click();
+    expect(click(e, lastPos(e))).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('keeps a click on a line the user can see below the quote', () => {
+    const e = mount(`<p>My response</p>${HEADER}${QUOTE}<p>Postscript</p>`);
+    expect(click(e, lastPos(e) - 2)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('keeps a click in the text above the quote', () => {
+    const e = mount();
+    expect(click(e, 3)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it.each(['above', 'below'])('ends the text before a signature %s the quote', (position) => {
+    const signature = buildSignatureBlock('<b>My signature</b>');
+    const e = mount(`<p>My response</p>${position === 'above' ? signature : ''}${HEADER}${QUOTE}${position === 'below' ? signature : ''}`);
+    expect(userTextEnd(e.state)).toBe(1 + 'My response'.length);
+  });
+
+  it('has no end of text in a body with neither quote nor signature', () => {
+    const e = mount('<p>Just text</p>');
+    expect(userTextEnd(e.state)).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/components/email/reply-quote-collapse.ts b/components/email/reply-quote-collapse.ts
index 5dbd658f2..b97485888 100644
--- a/components/email/reply-quote-collapse.ts
+++ b/components/email/reply-quote-collapse.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import { Extension } from '@tiptap/core';
 import type { Node as PMNode } from '@tiptap/pm/model';
-import { Plugin, PluginKey, Selection } from '@tiptap/pm/state';
+import { Plugin, PluginKey, Selection, TextSelection, type EditorState } from '@tiptap/pm/state';
 import { Decoration, DecorationSet } from '@tiptap/pm/view';
 
 export const REPLY_QUOTE_START_ATTRIBUTE = 'data-reply-quote-start';
@@ -59,6 +59,55 @@ function quoteRanges(doc: PMNode): QuoteRange[] {
   return ranges;
 }
 
+const isSignature = (node: PMNode) => node.type.name === 'signatureBlock' || Boolean(node.attrs['data-signature-block']);
+
+function collapsedRanges(state: EditorState): QuoteRange[] {
+  const expanded = quoteKey.getState(state)?.expanded ?? new Set<number>();
+  return quoteRanges(state.doc).filter((range) => !expanded.has(range.from));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Where the user's own text ends: the end of the last paragraph above the
+ * folded quote or the signature, whichever comes first. Null when the body
+ * has neither, so the end of the body is the end of the text.
+ */
+export function userTextEnd(state: EditorState): number | null {
+  const ranges = quoteRanges(state.doc);
+  let boundary: number | null = collapsedRanges(state)[0]?.from ?? null;
+  state.doc.forEach((node, pos) => {
+    if (isSignature(node) && (boundary === null || pos < boundary)) boundary = pos;
+  });
+  if (boundary === null) return null;
+  let end: number | null = null;
+  state.doc.forEach((node, pos) => {
+    if (pos + node.nodeSize > boundary! || !node.isTextblock || isSignature(node)) return;
+    if (ranges.some((range) => pos >= range.from && pos < range.to)) return;
+    end = pos + node.nodeSize - 1;
+  });
+  return end;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A click that lands under a folded quote (on the empty line the editor keeps
+ * at the end) would write below the hidden original, where the user can't see
+ * it. It goes to the end of their own text above the quote instead
+ * (compose-p2-3). Lines the user can see below the quote keep their click.
+ */
+function clickBelowCollapsedQuote(state: EditorState, pos: number): boolean {
+  const ranges = collapsedRanges(state);
+  const first = ranges[0];
+  if (!first || pos < first.from) return false;
+  const $pos = state.doc.resolve(pos);
+  const topPos = $pos.depth > 0 ? $pos.before(1) : pos;
+  let hiddenOrEmpty = true;
+  state.doc.forEach((node, nodePos) => {
+    if (nodePos < first.from || nodePos > topPos) return;
+    if (ranges.some((range) => nodePos >= range.from && nodePos < range.to)) return;
+    if (!node.isTextblock || isSignature(node) || node.content.size > 0) hiddenOrEmpty = false;
+  });
+  return hiddenOrEmpty;
+}
+
 /** Visibility is a view decoration, never a document edit or an undo step. */
 export const ReplyQuoteCollapse = Extension.create<{ show: string; hide: string }>({
   name: 'replyQuoteCollapse',
@@ -107,6 +156,13 @@ export const ReplyQuoteCollapse = Extension.create<{ show: string; hide: string
         },
       },
       props: {
+        handleClick(view, pos) {
+          if (!clickBelowCollapsedQuote(view.state, pos)) return false;
+          const end = userTextEnd(view.state);
+          if (end === null) return false;
+          view.dispatch(view.state.tr.setSelection(TextSelection.create(view.state.doc, end)));
+          return true;
+        },
         decorations(state) {
           const expanded = quoteKey.getState(state)?.expanded ?? new Set<number>();
           const decorations: Decoration[] = [];