[Mutt] attach file from another email to current email

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Tue Nov15'22 12:33:32AM, Mihai Lazarescu wrote:
> From: Mihai Lazarescu <mtlagm at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:33:32 +0100
> To: mutt-users at mutt.org
> Subject: Re: [Mutt] attach file from another email to current email
> 
> On Monday, November 14, 2022 at 10:30:01 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> 
> > I am sure that this is possible, but I can not figure out how to attach files from another email to my current email that I would like those emails attached to. Typically, I simply save each attachment locally, and then include it, which seems unnecessary and so I suspect that it is possible to directly add an attachment from an email in one of my mail-folders.
> 
> You can select the attachments you want from one source message, then reply
> (r) or forward (f) and mutt will ask whether to attach them to the new
> message.

Thanks very much. Sorry I am green at this: if I write an email, and then after I am done writing an email, and I want to include an attachment from another email (perhaps in another folder), what do I do?

> Or you can automate the process you describe above using a macro. :-) Then
> you can use it multiple times on all the attachments you need from arbitrary
> messages to attach them to the new message (which can stay postponed waiting
> for attachments).

Sorry, I do not quite understand how to go about writing this macro?

Many thanks, and best wishes,
Ranjan