On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:25:40PM -0700, David Ellement wrote:
> On 020905, at 18:41:18, Gary Johnson wrote
> > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:57:24PM -0400, Michael Herman wrote:
> > > Is there a way to forward e-mails in-line but any attachments are
> > > attached to the forward?
> > >
> > > For example, If I receive an e-mail with a spreadsheet and I would
> > > like to forward it, the text of the original e-mail would be in-line
> > > with my e-mail but the spreadsheet would be an attachment.
> >
> > To forward messages that way, you need to go to the attachment menu
> > ('v'), tag all the attachments ('t'), then forward them all using ';f'.
>
> It doesn't seem like this does quite what Michael asked, if I understand
> him correctly. He seems to want the in-line part of the original
> message included his forwarded message, with the attachments appearing
> as attachments to his message.
That's what I understood him to mean, and what I thought my solution
did. I've since done some more experimenting and I've discovered that
this doesn't work in all cases; it just happened to work in all the
cases I had previously tried.
> Mutt only seems to allow all in-line or
> all mime forwarding.
This seems to depend on the Content-Type of the attachment and whether
mutt is configured to decode that attachment type in-line when the
message is viewed in the pager. For example, if I forward a message
with a text/plain "body" and an image/gif attachment using the technique
I described previously, the body appears in the body of the forwarding
message and the image is attached as desired. However, if I forward a
message with the same body but with an application/excel attachment,
mutt includes both parts in the body of the forwarding message since my
mailcap has a rule for converting Excel attachments to text and my
muttrc includes "auto_view application/excel". The only way I could
find to forward the Excel file as an attachment while forwarding the
body in-line was to remove the "auto_view application/excel" from my
muttrc.
> With mime_forward set, if I tag the in-line part
> of message along with attachments before forwarding, the in-line part
> appears a another attachment, rather than within my message part; if I
> don't tag the in-line part, it doesn't appear at all.
That's what I observe as well.
> Have I missed something?
No, not unless I missed it, too. I just hadn't realized that my
solution didn't work in general. I can't think of any workaround for
this, either, short of restarting mutt with the auto_view commands
commented out.
Gary
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