after searching through the email archives on this topic, i found the following message dated Nov 14th, 1998: Forwarding specific attachments By Vikas Agnihotri @att.com I might be missing something here but how do I forward just one attachment to another recipient. For instance: I have a mail containing a text/plain, a application/msword and a image/gif attachment. I want to forward the application/msword attachment to another recipient. I set mime_forward, unset mime_forward_decode, went to the attachment menu and did a 'forward'. Mutt created a message/rfc822 attachment containing just the Word document. I didnt want this because it exposes too much details about where I got the attachment from, etc. What I wanted was just the Word document as a attachment. i.e. the effect achieved by saving the attachment, composing the message and then doing a simple attach-file from the compose menu. Thanks for any help, Vikas unfortunately, i didn't find an answer to this anywhere. does anyone know of a way? or are we stuck with doing it manually? (e.g., first saving, then composing, and finally attaching). thanks, --andy