At 20:17 17/06/99 +0100, Philip M. Beddoe wrote:
>It seems there is still a problem with forwarding emails in MD2. If I
>have an email loaded and I click the forward button the message is
>sent to the address specified. The problem is that MD2 often only
>sends the message text so when it arrives at the other end they have
>no idea who the original sender was. The subject is rarely left
>intact when forwarding too.
>
>I tried forwarding an email which had an attachment today. The email
>text was forwarded but the attachment was not. Also the subject and
>the To: field had been wiped. This means the person I forwarded the
>email to would not be able to see who the message came from originally
>or what the original subject was.
>
This is fairly common behaviour for most e-mail programmes, such as Eudora
(PC) and Pine (PC and UNIX). The original sender is lost when forwarding
mail and the attachments are too. You cannot expect software to do
everything for you or else it becomes Microsplurge, so big and complex that
noone can debug it.
David Fulford.
*** Dr David Fulford, Energy Group, Department of Engineering ***
*** The University of Reading, Whiteknights, ***
*** Reading RG6 6AY, UK Tel: +44-(0)118-931 8563, ***
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