321719 - Forward-Mailfilter send Original EMail always as Attachment

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 312025

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

I create a mail-filter that forward some EMails to another adress. I set under Tools,Options, Compositon, General, Forward message = "inline". Unfortunately is the sended forward message always a attachement. When I manually forward a message, it's send correct as inline.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create Mail-Filter with forward to someone
2. Set Tools/Options/Composition/General/Forward message to "inline" 
3. run the Message-Filter on inbox

Actual Results:  
Forwarded message is send as attachement

Expected Results:  
Forwarded message should been send as inline

These bug exist since TB 1.5 incl. RC 2

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

Yes, we know. It turns out to be difficult to make forward inline work as a filter action for technical reasons having to do with the way forward inline is implemented. 

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 312025 ***

Comment 3

[Bob Henson]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Yes, we know. It turns out to be difficult to make forward inline work as a
> filter action for technical reasons having to do with the way forward inline 
> is implemented. 
 

I guessed that might be the reason, but I would like to stress how important it is for the modification to be made to allow in-line forwarding. As many people now delete all message with attachments and certainly don't *ever* open an attachment (not if they've got any sense) this method of forwarding is, to all intents and purposes, unuseable. The hard work of adding this much needed feature to the program has been wasted if it not modified.

Regards,

Bob