Sven Guckes sez:
} * Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-02 12:52]:
} > To forward a message with attachments as you would naturally
} > want to you need to go to the attachments view of the message,
} > tag everything you want to forward (including the body if you
} > want to forward that), and then tag-forward (i.e. tag-prefix
} > forward, which is usually ";f"). You'll find yourself in your
} > editor with whatever text you're forwarding, and when you exit
} > the editor the attachments will be there on the compose screen.
} 
} yup..
} 
} > This one of the less intuitive parts of mutt.
} 
} but i wonder where you would improve the intuitiveness of that.
} suggestions?

With a quad-option (defaulting to ask-yes?). The option (I can't think of a
good name... forward-includes-attachments is too long), when set, would
make the ordinary forward action act as if all attachments had been tagged,
i.e. when you forward then all attachments are forwarded with it. When it
isn't set then mutt exhibits the current (unintuitive?) behavior.

I would consider it much more intuitive if forwarding a message forwarded
everything sent to me in that message, not just the text, but given that
that was not what was programmed in the first place I can only assume that 
there was some demand to have forwarding only forward the message body. I
would, in fact, be just as happy if there were no quad-option and the
default behavior was just to forward all attachments. Those who wanted only
specific attachments could either delete the unnecessary ones in the
compose screen or use the tag attachments tag-forward thing that is
currently required to forward all attachments.

I think either solution is better (easier and more intuitive) than the
current situation.

} Sven
--Greg

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