Re: [Evolution] forwarding of attachments

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

We've changed it so that attachments only get forwarded when you forward the entire mail using 'forward as attachment', which is the default fowarding option.  This forwards the entire message, including all attachments.  For various reasons this is normally a much better way to forward the email anyway, since generally at the receiving end the attached message can be treated as a native message rather than an opaque text object.

I'm not sure exactly of the design decision behind the change, other than perhaps that forwarding the mail in full is a 'preferred internet mechanism' for forwarding mails as it keeps all the data intact.

You can set the fotward style in the general tab of the composer preferences in the settings window.

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 18:53 +0200, Lubos Kolouch wrote:
> Dear Ximian/Novell,
>
> Thank you for your great job with Evolution. As a ex-developer
> I really like what you did, it is the best office suite today
> for linux.
>
> I am manager at Panasonic, using Evolution together with MS
> Exchange servers.
>
> There is one thing though that I do not like at all.
>
> I am receiving daily 100s of emails, most of them with many
> attachments. I forward them regularly to my team, other teams
> etc. Unfortunately all attachments are lost when I click
> forward (as quote, as typically I have to write in instructions
> what to do with the email).
>
> Can you imagine what pain it is to save each attachments,
> do forward, manually select attachments and send? It is costing
> me really lots of time so I am seriously thinking to switch
> to another mail client that does it correctly (I think you are
> the only one doing it this way!)
>
> Could you kindly
> - let me know WHY you decided to do it this business unfriendly way
> - if you have any plans to fix it?
>
> Thank you and best regards
>
> Lubos Kolouch
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