[PLUG] Received Mail difficult to forward
Bruce KIlpatrick
bakilpatrick at verizon.net
Wed Sep 24 01:35:58 UTC 2008
Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> Bruce KIlpatrick wrote:
>
>> Denis Heidtmann wrote:
>>
>>> Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:55:34AM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I have received a few emails which contain text and pictures. These have
>>>>> come forwarded to me from a couple of different people. When I try to
>>>>> forward the email the pictures are missing ...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Can anybody tell me what is happening? Is there a way for me to change the
>>>>> way TB handles these so that I can forward them without having to painfully
>>>>> reconstruct them by saving each image separately and attaching the saved
>>>>> images?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I don't know what it is called in Thunderbird, but with the text-
>>>> based Mutt mailer this is called a "bounce" instead of the normal
>>>> "forward". Bounce sends a duplicate of the message, attachments
>>>> and all, to the email address specified in the bounce command.
>>>> Hopefully, TB has something similar, and perhaps the name will
>>>> help you find it.
>>>>
>>>> Keith
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I find "bounce e-mail" or "bounce mail" to mean returning to the sender:
>>> DEFINITION - Bounce e-mail (sometimes referred to as bounce mail) is electronic
>>> mail that is returned to the sender because it cannot be delivered for some reason.
>>> Except: Some products and users use the term bounce to mean "forward a received
>>> note to someone else."
>>>
>>> That in fact is what I tried to do. Usually, I can forward a message having
>>> attachments, and the attachments appear in the copy. Same with "edit as new":
>>> the attachments are attached to the copy which I am editing.
>>>
>>> However, TB shows the troublesome mail as having no attachments.
>>>
>>> Investigating more, I saved the email as a file (A file menu option in TB). I
>>> then opened the resulting saved file using Kmail. It shows it as an HTML
>>> message having 24 attachments (the images). It lists various message part types
>>> as multipart/alternative, Plain Text Document, multipart/related, HTML Document,
>>> and JPEG Images. (I have never used Kmail before. but it tells me much more
>>> about this message than TB does.)
>>>
>>> It seems at this point that this is a TB issue with this type of message. My
>>> guess at present is that the problem is that it is an HTML message. I searched
>>> a little for another HTML message, but the one I found did not have attachments,
>>> so I cannot determine if all HTML messages suffer the same fate. Time to Google
>>> some, now that I have a suspicion of what to look for.
>>>
>>> -Denis
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>> Denis,
>>
>> Please post the results of your research. I am having the same problem
>> with TB 2.0.
>>
>> The only way I have found around the situation is to save the email as a
>> file to my desktop and attach it to a new message, then delete the saved
>> file...should be an easier method in such a popular email client.
>>
>> Bruce
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>
> My searching turned up little--mostly dated information. One entry I found
> said, in effect, do not use HTML email.
>
> One thing I did which worked was to change to forward mail as an attachment
> rather than in-line (edit/preferences/composition). I sent the mail to myself,
> and the attachment opened with the pictures visible. Not a convenient solution
> either, but perhaps better than saving and attaching.
>
> Should this be reported as a bug?
>
> -Denis
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Thanks Denis,
I did the same and will see how it works in the following days.
Bruce
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