On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:46:09AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> % > Said Aleks Owczarek on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:38:08PM +1100:
> % >
> % > > convoluted process easier by adding a "forward-with-attachments"
> % > > variable or am i missing something?????????
> Please help me clarify... Is it the case that $mime_forward does not
> work at all for you, or simply that you do not want to forward the
> message, with its attachments, in its own single attachment container?
OK, let me try to explain this by an example. Someone sends me a
message with an attachment. Mutt's Attachments menu shows this:
I 1 <no description> [text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii, 2.9K]
A 2 a-book.pdf [applica/pdf, base64, 214K]
Now I want to forward this message to someone else. I type 'f' and mutt
asks me "Forward MIME encapsulated? ([n]/y):" to which I reply "n".
Mutt starts my editor with the text/plain part of the message already in
the editor so that I can easily refer to it or edit it if I choose.
This is fine, but when I finish editing the message, I find that mutt
has not included the attachment.
So I try again. This time I reply "y" to "Forward MIME encapsulated?
([n]/y):". Now mutt starts my editor with nothing in it but my
signature! The message I'm forwarding isn't there! Further, when I
finish editing the message, I find that mutt has attached the entire
forwarded message as one attachment, so I can't see the individual
attachments nor can I view or delete them individually.
I try a third time. I type 'v' to see the Attachment menu, type 't'
twice to select both parts of the message, then type ';f' to forward
both parts. After answering "n" to "Forward MIME encapsulated?
([n]/y):", mutt starts my editor with the text/plain part already there.
Great! I finish editing and find that mutt has included the attachment
in the message. Again great! This is exactly the behavior I want. But
I want it as easily as I get the other forwarding behaviors, in one
keystroke, maybe two.
A macro would work fine, but there's no <tag-pattern> function in the
Attachments menu.
A quadoption would also work, like the 'forward-with-attachments'
variable that Aleks suggested. "No" would get the current behavior;
"yes" would get the behavior that a lot people seem to expect and want,
to wit, typing 'f' does all the steps in my third try automatically.
Does that make sense?
Gary
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