With all due respect, this kind of answer (below) is not helpful to the person who made the original query, or to anyone else for that matter. If you don't know how to help that person, please don't increase their frustration by telling them that what is irritating to them is just fine and dandy because it obviously is not fine and dandy.
Actually, the default should never be to display full envelope information because 99% of the time people forward messages for other purposes than to communicate with a system administrator. On the off chance that one wishes to forward envelope information to a system administrator, one can and should reserve display of that information for that rare purpose at that particular time. Particularly for blind people who generally have to listen to read mail (forwarded or otherwise) it is particularly bothersome and downright unacceptable to have to listen through lines and lines of unwanted and unnecessary ramble in order to simply get to the point of the information that is being mailed to us. I do not personally know the list member who originally asked how to get rid of the envelope ramble but on that person's behalf I had to speak up to ask that messages such as the one below please not be sent in future because that kind of dismissiveness and disregard for another person's legitimate questions is not at all helpful to promote info-sharing. If anyone on this list does know how to help the person who asked how to change their mail setting to hide the full envelope information in all forwarded mail, I hope that that person will please share that information with all of us because it would b helpful information indeed. Regards, L. Mehta -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 5/20/14, Travis Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: Seriously folks. When you forward an email, mail (by default) includes all the headers. This is so that if you're forwarding to an admin or something, and your problem is something to do with the message path, the admin will have all the info they need to track down the problem. It only takes a few seconds to shift-down arrow and highlight the parts you don't want forwarded, then just hit the delete button. Poof, no more headers in the forwarded message. I have no idea if there's a mail setting to restrict the forwarded headers or not, but even if there was, I'd not use it, because when trying to track down problems, the more the better. Admittedly, when forwarding to someone who isn't an admin, the extra headers are irritating and spammy, but that's why the delete key is there, use it. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
