[mew-int 00913] Re: Forwarding Inline

[Charles Muller]

From: Havard Eidnes <he at example.com>
Subject: Re: [mew-int 00907] Forwarding Inline
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:44:15 +0200 (CEST)

> > It seems that the default setting for forwarding messages in MEW is as
> > attachment.
> 
> "As it should be!"
> 
> It's using the technically corect way of dealing with forwarding of
> (potentially already MIME-using) messages using MIME functionality,
> labeling the attachment with Message/Rfc822.
> 
> This has the huge advantage that any MIME structure in the forwarded
> message is preserved intact; forwarding it inline instead would in all
> probability break apart any MIME structure in the message with
> predictable result.
> 
> ...which makes me wonder why you want this functionality?

I am a moderator of a listserv that is set up to handle messages through the forwarding function. I often need to edit and reformat these messages inline. So I really can't use MEW to do this task.

Chuck