Gary, et al -- ...and then Gary Johnson said... % % On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:22:34PM -0500, David T-G wrote: % % > ...and then Gary Johnson said... % % > % 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 ... % > % OK, let me try to explain this by an example. Someone sends me a % > % > I just wanted to make sure I understood the problem; lots of people % > started pointing to $mime_forward when I didn't think that that was the % > answer Aleks sought. % % I'm sorry if my tone was impolite. I was exasperated by the apparent % need to explain again what I thought Aleks had already made clear.
The tone was not at all impolite; no worries. I reply in kind; I didn't mean to put you off your footing, but merely to clarify why I was asking for clarification. I think we share the exasperation. % % One reason for replying in such detail was that I wanted to be sure that % I understood the problem myself before criticizing mutt's behavior, so I % tried all the ways I knew of forwarding as I was writing the reply. I % learned some stuff. That's always good :-) Forgive me for having snipped so much of your message away! % ... % > % ([n]/y):", mutt starts my editor with the text/plain part already there. % > % > So you (or you in Aleks's shoes) want to be able to edit the text body as % > though it were a reply. OK. % % I guess this is habit as much as anything else. Mutt's default % forwarding behavior, as well as that of a lot of other mailers, judging % from the mail I receive, is to include the original message in the new % message's body. So that's what I've come to expect. Sure; forwarding without MIME encapsulation. I don't do that but there are lots of people who do. I class that as a reply even if it's not going back to the sender, since I think that forwarding means handing the message to someone perhaps with a sticky note of comments at the top but otherwise not chewed around. Can you say IMNSHO? :-) % % > % in the message. Again great! This is exactly the behavior I want. But ... % > So $mime_forward and putting any prologue in your envelope isn't good ... % % The $mime_forward behavior is OK, but it's not what I've been % conditioned to expect when I forward a message. I would expect the % basic behavior of forwarding to be consistent, whether or not I chose to % include the original message's attachments. That makes sense, I suppose. I can certainly see your argument. % % > I repeat that it's time for a feature patch, so one of you guys either % > start coding one or find someone who will. % % I wasn't as frustrated with mutt not having the feature as I was with % feeling that the feature wasn't being understood. Nevertheless, I % suppose its time that I took a look at the code to see how difficult % adding such a feature might be. Best of luck! % % Gary % % -- % Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies % [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Spokane, Washington, USA % http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ | HTH & HAND & Happy Valentine's Day :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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