Hi Eric, I’m so glad you were able to remove the extraneous headers from your forwarded email messages by setting your Mail Preferences “Viewing” pane popup option for “Show header detail” to “Default”, and I’m sorry it took you 5 years to resolve this issue. Now that you mention this question coming up previously on mailing lists, I think I’ve seen this once or twice, including a post by Danny on this list a couple of years ago. I assumed that the answer was the one that Zack gave — namely that the viewing option for reading mail headers had been toggled to display detailed information — or else the question was phrased as an issue with mail under the latest operating system. While new users often buy new Macs with the latest operating system loaded, folks who have been using their Macs for some time don’t always update their Macs right away, if they need to run programs that were written under an earlier version of Mac OS X. Since this issue of additional headers in forwarded mail was never something I experienced, I didn’t realize this feature could be switched on by mistake in mail's preferences. And if I hadn’t updated to the latest operating system when the question appeared, I would think that solving the issue might this.
So it was only your persistence in posting an example, and making it clear that there was a problem with the forwarded content within the body of the mail post that led me to look into this. This does show that people should continue to post questions to this list about outstanding issues, even if earlier queries didn’t turn up a good answer. Cheers, Esther On May 20, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Eric Caron wrote: > Hi Esther and others, > > This worked! I changed the setting to default and now just have the usual > headings. I suspect that as a new Mac user in 2009 I probably changed the > setting myself when trying to get mail to show me something or do something > for me. I then transferred the setting each time i migrated to a new > computer. And the setting held each time I upgraded my operating system. > I'm so very pleased to be able to use forward again in this efficient > manner. > > You may ask why I waited 5 years to ask. I have seen this question > come up on Mac lists before. this is the first time I read a working answer. > > > Thanks to all who stuck in there to help me get a answer. And, Esther, > you rock! > > Eric Caron <--- 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/>
