Re: [Evolution] A few notes about the user interface

[Richard Zach <zach math berkeley edu>]

> o When forwarding a mail, it can either be forwarded as an attachment,
> or as quoted text.  Both are usually considered fairly bad habits, in
> particular forwarding as quoted (and indented) text leads to emails that
> have more greater than symbols than actual text.  I'd like to at least
> have this behaviour an option.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1387

But on latest snapshots you can forward inline: Actions > Forward As...

> This has been debated at length, months ago.  Forwarding as an
> attachemnt is the correct way, and why it is the default behaviour, and
> will not change.

What does "is the correct way" mean?  Is there an RFC that says you can't forward a message inline?

> Then how about making the forwarded subject line say something like "FW:" or
> "FWD:", instead of the non-standard and disconcerting way it is now?

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624