Created attachment 175207 [details]
HTML mail file in mbox format with headers snipped 

When I receive HTML mail with special formatting and pictures, I often want to forward the letter exactly as it appears on my screen to others.  Yet, when I do 
"edit as new message", the images are lost and not forwarded.  

It would appear that the mailer knows that I prefer plain text, and forces my
forwarded mail into that format.  Yet, this does not make sense to me.  As a user, my expectation is that when I forward HTML mail, it will remain as HTML mail. Likewise, I would be very surprised if my plain TXT mail were somehow forwarded as HTML mail.

There is a work-around in that I can:

1. "edit as new message"
2. select "Format--> HTML" (which causes the pictures to reappear).

This would seem to be a bug because it does not perform as a user would expect.

This issue has been discussed on the evolution mailing list.
The e-mail in question has been attached.

Thanks.