David-
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:46:09AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
>
> 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?
> If it's the former, we need to investigate the issue and debug the
> problem, because it's obviously supposed to work as designed.
>
> IMHO, it really makes much more sense to forward the attachments with
> the original message instead of forwarding them detached and reattached,
> so to speak; mutt thinks in terms of messages rather than files or
> attachments and "forwarding" is done to existing messages while "mailing"
> creates new messages with whatever attachments you want. Now, if you
> only want certain attachments from the list, that's a different story,
> but I don't see how your proposed variable would help in that case.
>
> You might resend the message with esc-e, going in and changing the
> headers to your new recipients, but that to me is a kludge as well.
>
> I think you'll have to either code up a feature patch yourself or
> find someone you can convince to do so for you. IMHO, again, the only
> leverage you might be able to apply is that you want the original headers
> hidden somehow, like who originally sent it or what address received it.
> Good luck :-)
>
Read Gary Johnson's explanation for clarification.
As to the reason: The reason is the same reason you want to edit a
forwarded message at any time: you may want to add comments, you may
want to delete sections of the forwarded text but in this case you
also want to keep the attachments. This is what I want as my default
behaviour and I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few others would want
the same. IMHO it would seem the sensible default.
> P.S. -- Your M-F-T: was broken on this message, too
ps: not sure what is happening with my M-F-T: they appeared as
Mail-followup-to: Aleks Owczarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mutt Users' List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on the last message I sent. I have set the "from" variable in my .muttrc
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] now. Maybe that will work.
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Aleks L. Owczarek
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne, Vic, 3010, Australia.
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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