A few hours ago, I sent examples to this list that show that forwarding attachments in 1.5.93 doesn't work. Note that the attachments were "Suggest automatic display". "Users" expect to be able to forward attachments. Geeks who grok all the RFCs may understand these limitations, but I don't, and I know that "users" who are used to forwarding emails that attachments (I do it all the time with business email) will be sore if it doesn't work in Evo. On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 23:45 +0200, guenther wrote:
It would seem that I can no longer forward email which have attachments to also include their attachments. IE I have a request sent to me with two Excel spreadsheets which I can open in OpenOffice. When I try Reply to all, Reply or Forward their are no attachments listed.Forwarding as Attachments does forward the whole message always, including any attachment -- regardless of the Content-Disposition value of the attachments. When replying or forwarding inline/quoted, attachments will be included only if Content-Disposition is "inline". They will not be included for Content-Disposition attachment. Content-Disposition can be set by the sender of an email only. It is called "Suggest automatic display" when attaching files within Evolution. Content-Disposition decides, if the mailer will try to display the attachments content within the mail by default (inline), or if only a placeholder should be displayed (attachment). There was an old bug regarding this issue, resolved: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=45714 IMHO it is a good idea, to not attach any attachment, when forwarding inline, as this would look like the one forwarding has attached them, rather than the original sender. Forwarding as attachment does not reveal this potential confusion, as you can tell the origin of any attachment due to cascaded mime attachments. When replying to a mail, I never want to send the attachment again. Well, as I reply, the recipient already has that attached file... If you want to attach any previous attachment nonetheless, you simply can do this by drag-n-drop. The attachment "button" can be dragged, just drop it over the Composers attachment pane. You do not need to save the attachment first.
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