On Mar 2, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Rado S wrote:
=- Jim Allen wrote on Wed 28.Feb'07 at 20:02:57 -0600 -=
A useful feature would be providing the equivalent of the
mime_forward configuration variable but which applies to replies
(i.e.mime_reply which allows reply with attachments). This
allows one to preserve the original note and its formatting.
Why would you want to send back the original attachment(s) unchanged?
Is this a more "sophisticated" variant of TOFU quoting?
In the current mutt if one replies to a multipart/alternative e-mail
and includes the original
e-mail, then only the plain text portion of that e-mail is included.
The rest is discarded. I have
had many complain to me about this, since they prefer the html
portions of the
mulitpart/alternative and are unhappy with being forced to use plain
text.
So mime_reply offers a simple way to handle that situation where only
mutt's new response is
in plain text. The previous chain of e-mail is left in it original
format. So from an html e-mail
user's perspective they see the previous e-mails essentially the same.
