Re: [Evolution] forwarding of attachments

[Thomas Spuhler <ThomasSpuhler tusonix com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 12:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 13:48 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 12:35 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 22:22 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > > Lastly, if Evo did it the way most clients do, it would be
> > trivial to
> > > > > deal with the less common case of *not* wanting to send
> > attachments:
> > > > > just delete them from the attachments bar the way you do when
> > composing
> > > > > a new message.
> > > >
> > > > We do this by default.  The user must change a setting for this
> > not to
> > > > happen.
> > >
> > > Actually, the setting means "forward everything as an attachment,
> > > including the text of the message". There's no reason (logically)
> > not to
> > > include attachments even when forwarding inline or quoted.
> >
> > consistancy with replying. also, if you are quoting then you are
> > interested in the body text and not necessarily the attachments
> > anyway.
>
> Consistency is fine when it makes sense. However if I reply to someone
> who sent me attachments, I would rarely if ever want to send them back
> to him. 
Please read it again. We are not talking about replying. (in that case,
you do not want the attachment) We are talking about forwarding e-mail
and in this case (most of the time) you want the attachment to go with
the e-mail, email inline and attachment attached.
Of course this is my own preference


> If I'm passing his message on to someone else, I usually *do*
> want to send everything, but sometimes I want the option of editing or
> commenting on his text. We could go round and round on this, but I do
> think it's a common case.
>
> poc
Tom
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