On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 00:54 -0500, R. Drew Davis wrote:
There are a couple of things I sometimes want to do with e-mail that I haven't been able to figure out how to do with Evolution. 1- Sometimes I receive e-mail with layers and layers of headers on it. (Often a too-forwarded joke). I'd like to operate on the original mail message in a text editor to strip out the excess baggage, then re-incorporate the slimmed down message back into the mail folder and forward it along.
Why won't copy-ad-paste work?
2- Sometimes I want to insert a couple of e-mail messages into an outgoing message as attachments. I only know how to attach files. Am I supposed to save the original message as a file of some particular type so that when inserted back into the outgoing message its back to being e-mail (perhaps with HTML in it) instead of just going in as text?
Drag-and-drop. At the bottom of the compose window is the text "(drop attachment here)". In the "subject list pane", highlight the subject of an email, then drag it onto the bottom of the compose window. After you drag all the relevant emails into the attachment bar, I suggest that you right-click on each one, choose Properties, and ensure that "Suggest automatic display of attachment" is checked.
By the way, I've noticed when I reply to HTML-formatted e-mail with plain text mail, that editing the text of the original mail to strip out portions unnecessary in the reply often results in Evolution 2.0.2 going into a CPU-busy loop. Is that a known bug?
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