Re: Forwarding attachments

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcormail de>]

Sorry, I was out for a week, so my reply is really late...

Am 11.09.2001 17:16:15 schrieb(en) Brian Stafford:
[snip]
> Recap: three ways to forward a message have been mentioned to date
> 	1) RFC 2822 resend.  Original message is sent to new recipients.
> 	   Message is not altered, has same message-id and to/cc/bcc headers
> 	   New recipient list is added to resent-to/cc/bcc headers and
> resender
> 	   is in resent-from header.  Effect is the mostly same as if
> message
> 	   had been originally delivered to the resent recipients.
> 
> 	2) Attach original message as message/rfc822.  This allows some
> commentary
>            to be added by the forwarder but also guarantees the new
> recipients
> 	   a verbatim copy of the message.  The composite message is a new
> message
> 	   with a new message-id.
> 
> 	3) Cut and paste bits of the original into a new message.  This is
> 	   all that balsa does now.

Up to now, I wrote a patch which implements method #2. It is still
experimental and *not* meant to go into 1.2. When forwarding a message, you
will *only* see a single attachment of type message/rfc822 in the new message.
Of couse, you could remove this, but that does not make sense... There is no
way whatsoever to make any changes to the forwarded message, neither to a text
part or to the attachments. However, it is possible to add more attachments.
Note that upon *reception* (or in the sentbox) balsa shows all parts of the
forwarded message instead of a single "message/rfc822" attachment. Thus the
internal structure "tree" of the message is not visualized, which I think
could be improved (Maybe something like "View mail structure" similar to "View
source"). Anyway, I hope this approach complies to RFC 2046...

However, I plan to make two menu entries named e.g. "forward attached" and
"forward quoted" (stolen from Nutscrape...), where the latter option uses the
current method #3 (quoting any text parts, ignoring anything else). I agree
that heavy editing of a received message (IMHO this includes removing of
attachments) is more composing a new message than forwarding.

Cheers, Albrecht.


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