Re: RFE: forward to INCLUDE attachments?

[Larry Rosenman <ler lerctr org>]

* M . Thielker <balsa@t-data.com> [010724 19:59]:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2001.07.25 02:18 Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> > i for my side would like something like this too. pressing forward
> > and it also contains the attachments but thats all a matter of
> > RFC.
> > 
> As far as I can see, the RFCs do not specify this. They wouldn't, either,
> because that's a MUA feature and RFC 822/2822 only specify message formats.
> In my opinion, forwarded messages should include the attachments.
> I see an internet RFC 2822 message as a text stream, regardless of what's
> encoded in there, preceded by a header. If I forward a message, I forward
> the _entire_ message and only rewrite the header according to RFC 2822. The
> message text, which from mym point of view is to be seen as an opaque text
> stream, should be copied verbatim, not split into text and binary parts,
> nothing should be added or omitted.
> The implementation may choose to split the content parts for display
> purposes, as Balsa does, but it should be able to reassemble the original,
> unmodified message if the user so desires.
> The only change to the message body that should happen automatically is
> prepending a text section giving the parts of the original header that are
> replaced:
> 
> Original message:
> From: xxx@yyy.com
> Date: mm-dd-yyyy TZ
> Subject: mysubject
> 
> All else should be included. Since a forwarded message should be offered for
> editing in a compose window, the user always has the option to remove one or
> more attachments, or replace the attachments with different ones. This
> should be the user's choice, nut the MUAs.
> 
My point exactly.  What's between this and making it happen with
Balsa? 

It was quite disconcerting to have my colleague say "Where's the
attachements?" today.

Thanks, 
LER

> Cheers,
> 
> Melanie
> 
> PS: All graphical MUAs I know of do it just that way.
> 
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