506015 - Forward messages both inline and as attachment

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Volkan Orhan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.22 (20090605)

There are two choices for message forwarding, which are inline and as attachment. A third choice which is for both inline and as attachment would be excellent. In addition, make the third choice default since attached mail which has eml extension can't be viewed on web based e-mail clients, and inline forwarded mail is not the exact copy of the forwarded e-mail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Feature request

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

This option was proposed in bug 230448 comment #23 by dmose himself and basically won't-fixed in the discussion there. Only a limited number of use cases actually require the message being forwarded "as is" with the original structure and headers intact (e.g., spam reporting). The overhead of forwarding a message in a way that replicates the message body up to four times doesn't seem to be justified, specifically as a default setting. There are ambiguities in sending attachments multiple times (as part of the forwarding message and the message attachment). Also, inheriting the issues associated with forwarding as attachment, servers may reject message attachments and block the entire e-mail in the worst case.

By the way, there is an easy workaround to accomplish the mode you desire on a per-message basis: Just forward inline, then drag-and-drop the message from the thread list to the attachment pane of the composition window to also attach it.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away until Aug 10)]

->WONTFIX, as per comment 1