Forward with attachments

Jason electron at emypeople.net
Tue Apr 18 21:02:36 UTC 2023


Hello,

Is there a configuration that will make mutt's forwarding behavior more like other clients I have used: body is quoted in the message, and attachments are automatically attached?

The options I have tried are:

1. Regular forward. Attachments are not included.

2. Forward as attachment. This attaches the whole multi-part email as a single attachment. One of the things I don't like about this is the original body is not included in the new message body.

3. Open attachment view, tag all attachments including body, do 'tag prefix' then 'forward', and select 'no' when asked whether to send as attachments. This seems to do what I want for the most part, body text is included in body and regular files are attached, although I'm not sure what happens if some of the attachments happen to be plain text files. Will it dump those into the body as well?

So I guess basically my question is, how do I get the behavior of #3 without going through all the steps of selecting attachments, etc.? I would like to get it simplified for less advanced users, and what I've described seems to be the default behavior of other clients like Claws Mail and Thunderbird.

Thanks,
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Jason



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