On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 04:03:00PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 06:55:48PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > > Is there a way to make Mutt deal with this properly? I can't imagine > > that the audience of Mutt (largely sysadmins and programmers and such) > > hasn't run into this problem before... The normal way I handle this > > is to save the original body to a text file, mime_forward the message > > components *excluding* the body, and then while composing my own body, > > read the original body into my editor, manually marking it up to > > distinguish it from what I've written. > > Definitely interested in hearing the discussion on this one as well.. in the > past I've relied on 'b' to bounce the message on to someone when I needed to > preserve the attachments as-is, but this obviously doesn't allow you to > (easily) edit the contents of the message first. At least not in a way > compareable to how other mailers do it. If bouncing is enough for you, then probably it will be enough for you to add this to your muttrc (or make a macro to do it when you need it, or something): set mime_forward But again, this does not (AFAICT) allow you to easily edit the original body. In fact, it's really annoying in another way: it includes the *headers* from the original message in-line in the body, but not the original body itself... But then the entire message is included (with headers) in the first attachment. I consider this to be utterly and completely broken, and I'm considering reporting it as a bug, but I'm waiting to see what other people think. It's shocking to me that people have not previously complained loudly enough about this to get it changed; but that just leads me to think that some people actually *like* this behavior, which boggles my mind. It might even "bottle" my mind. ;-) -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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