[ILUG] forwarding whole messages in mutt

[Gavin McCullagh]

sorry that's the Connectiva linux mutt package.  Could find out how they do it
though.

Gavin

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> 
> According to the changes in Mutt 1.3.17 
> 
> * Mon Apr 30 2001 Guilherme Wunsch Manika <gwm at conectiva.com>
>   + mutt-1.3.17-3cl
> 	- Closes: #2867 (/etc/Muttrc overwrites default key bindings)
> 	- forward-with-attachments is <Esc> f now
> 
> 
> I believe <ESC>-f should do it for you.  I can't test this as we're still
> using Mutt 1.2.5i,
> 
> Could you let me know if it works, I might upgrade for this.
> 
> Gavin
> 
> 
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:54:09AM +0000, kevin lyda wrote:
> > > helpful answer:
> > > 
> > >     press f1 in mutt and read the manual
> > > 
> > > less helpful answer:
> > > 
> > Heh - i'd classify this as "more" rather than less -) I wasn't so much
> > asking for a solution to this as complaining that it's the default - why
> > unecessarily annoy the user by default?
> > 
> >  
> > > ok, at some point when you forward the mail, it asks if you want to
> > > forward the message as mime.  
> > That's the thing - it doesn't ask. It just plain ignores it -(
> > 
> > > alternatively, you can go to the message, press v (which brings up the
> > > list of attachments for that message), and press f on the individual
> > > attachment you want to forward.  or if you want to just forward a few
> > > of them, just tag them and press ;f (the ; key indicates that the next
> > > comman should act across all tagged items).
> > Ugh - that's just messy. Surely there has to be a better way. Any other
> > mailer i've ever used does the right thing here, why does mutt refuse
> > to. Gah.
> > 
> > Steve
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