Re: [Evolution] Attaching email as reply to another email?

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 10:20 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:45 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:30 +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
> > > Is it possible, and if so how, to reply to an email (thus maintaining
> > > threading etc) and in that reply attach another email (from the 'sent'
> > > mailbox in the case I am wanting to do, if that makes any difference) as
> > > MIME type message/rfc822?
> >
> > Hit reply as usual on the message you actually want to reply to.
> >
> > Then click on 'Show Attachment Bar' at the bottom of the compose window.
> >
> > Then drag the other message that you want to attach, and drop it in the
> > space at the bottom that opens up.
>
> And moreover:
> - you don't have to open the attachment bar, it works as well when it's
> still closed.

That doesn't seem to be true any more in Evolution 3.0 on Fedora 15. It
*used* to be like that (and I think at one point you could drop the
attachments on the formatting bar of the composer too), but now it only
seems to be the *opened* attachment area that accepts D&D.

> - you can change the setting in "composer preferences" -> "General" ->
> "Reply style" to always attach the original mail instead of quoting.

He wanted to attach a *different* email, not the one to which he was
replying.

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