Re: [Evolution] Forwarding inline with attachments

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I use evolution and I think it's very good, however I find it annoying
> that when I forward emails I lose the attachments. I understand if I
> select "forward as attachment" then the attachments are included, but I
> don't want this, as I prefer to send the emails inlined. (then I can
> reformat them).

IMHO forwarded mails should be as is. But that's only my opinion.


> Why is this not an option?

Due to a bug. ;)


> I noticed that there was a
> thread on this mailing list that implied that it was possible under
> certain circumstances for attachments to be forwarded when in inline
> mode, but I haven't seen this behaviour.

Plain text attachments when forwarded inline are dropped, as long as
they are not sent with MIME part header Content-Disposition: inline...

For a full table on the current (and inconsistent) behavior, see my bug:
 http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=45714

...guenther


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