well, it's a workaround and not ideal: when forwarding, forward a copy to yourself. it will come back to you and you will need to remember that you have seen it already and not to reforward it and blablabla. not elegant.
guess the basic question is, why so complicated and forwarding to an archive account? why not just an apple script which sets it to a specific account and filters it into its own folder right where you are? when you forward, it does not quote btw, it only quotes when you hit reply. but it does put in a FWD and the header/footer info of begin/end forwarded message. most easy way would be to have only the archive account download and DELETE emails from the server. So you just get the files, and attachments, i.e. download them but no forwarding, nothing. When you are on your archive system, you download AND delete the messages from the server. can be set in the preferences. even set to delete messages older than etc. I use this system with my powerbook and desktop machine and that works well. ---marlyse -------------------------original message follows------------------------- >Well, they are indeed gone.. I did a find for the name of thae attachment >but it is nowhere to be found... > >Forwarding does not work because it quotes the email, which I don't >want.... ANy other ideas?... > >- GReg > >>re-directing basically does that, it leaves nothing behind - you are just >>the relais point. forwarding makes a copy and sends that. >> >>question is, does it delete the attachment or only loose the path? check >>your attachment folder if the files are still there, probably they are. >> >>---marlyse >> >>>Yes, I am redirecting the email to an archive account.. There is not >>>archive "folder", it's a POP account on another system.... >>> >>>So what I don't understand is why redirecting an email will remove/ >>>delete/whatever the attachment.. I am certainly not doing anything with >>it.... >>> >>>More importantly: how can change this behavior?.... >> > > > >
