Re: forwarding emails that have attachments
I guess that what you need to do is to press 'b' in the index view of
the email. Bounce the message to another email account.
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:56:24PM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> Ok, I have been through the manual, and tried all means that I can
> figure out of forwarding email, but I can't figure out the recipe for
> what I want to do.
>
> Scenario: I receive an email, in plain text, with a MS Word document
> attached to it. It looks like crap in antiword, so I forward it to my
> office account (Exchange/Outlook) for further dissemination.
>
> Now, what I want to do is see the plain text of the original email
> inline with my comments, and to have the Word doc attached to this 'new'
> email. The best that I can do with Mutt's config right now is
> forwarding the entire original message as an attachment to a new email,
> but that isn't what I want to do.
>
> I am guessing that this is probably going to have to be something along
> the lines of saving the Word doc, forwarding the text portion of the
> original email inline, and then attaching the Word doc post-editing,
> pre-sending, and then finally deleting the Word doc from the file
> system.
>
> Please tell me that I am wrong.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Mike
> perl -e 'print unpack("u","88V]N=&%C=\"!I;F9O(&EN(&AE861E<G,*");'
>
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