GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 262601
No way to forward mail including attachements
Last modified: 2005-10-12 13:14:40 UTC
In earlier versions of evolution-1.5, forwarding a mail as "inline" would mean that any attachments on the original mail would be attached to the forwarded copy. This was not ideal, usability-wise, since it was a bit of a hidden feature, but at least it gave a way to forward a piece of mail including all of the attachments. In version 1.5.91, forwarding as an inline message drops any attachments. So I now need to save the attachments to somewhere, start the forwarded mail and then reattach the documents, etc. I regularly receive mail with attachments from clients that I need to forward onto members in my team, so I end up doing this dance two or three times a day. It is very painful. Could we get some sort of "forward with attachments" back please? I'm all in favour of not making it the default -- too many people in Outlook-land send every attachment on every reply without thinking. The ability to drag any attachment from one mail message to a message being composed might be a reasonable fallback -- it means I only have to touch each attachment once, instead of twice. But zero times would be even better. :-)
Forward as Attachment - it's even the default forward style!
"Forward as Attachment" makes the original mail an attachment to the new mail. The new piece of mail that is then created does NOT include any of the attachments on the original mail. I am looking for a restoration of some way to include all of the attachments that were in the original mail.
ok, then I guess this is a feature request.
How can you say that it is a feature request?! I guess you never had to forward an email with attachments and comments on specific lines of an email. On 2002 you said: ------- Additional Comments From Jeff Stedfast 2002-10-16 11:21 ------- not worth our time Is it still your opinion? Maybe some folks are wasting their time as well with Evolution. It's the small things like these that make great software. I will never say Evolution isn't great because it is, but it could definately be better in some areas. I reckon Evolution is in string freeze at the moment so please *do* include this "feature" as you say it is on the next release.
This is not a feature request, it's a regression from 1.4
christine, jpr and I all agreed to get rid of attachments for forwarding quoted/inline and nearly ecided to get rid of forwarded quoted/inline altogether
so, is this a WONTFIX ("Forward as Attachment", "Forward as Attachment"!)?
yes, this is not a bug. forward as attachment is the rfc-recommended way to forward the entire message including attachments.
*** Bug 316213 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 318646 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***