mh-e: Forwarding
8.3 Forwarding Mail
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To forward a message, use the ‘f’ (‘mh-forward’) command. You are
prompted for the ‘To:’ and ‘cc:’ recipients. You are given a draft to
edit that looks like it would if you had run the MH command ‘forw’(1).
You can then add some text (
Editing Drafts). You can forward
several messages by using a range (Ranges). All of the messages
in the range are inserted into your draft. The hook ‘mh-forward-hook’
is called on the draft.
By default, the option ‘mh-compose-forward-as-mime-flag’ is on which
means that the forwarded messages are included as attachments. These
are inline attachments so the forwarded message should appear in the
body of your recipient’s mail program. If you would prefer to forward
your messages verbatim (as text, inline), then turn off this option.
Forwarding messages verbatim works well for short, textual messages, but
your recipient won’t be able to view any non-textual attachments that
were in the forwarded message. Be aware that if you have ‘forw: -mime’
in your MH profile, then forwarded messages will always be included as
attachments regardless of the settings of
‘mh-compose-forward-as-mime-flag’.
The format of the ‘Subject:’ header field for forwarded messages is
controlled by the option ‘mh-forward-subject-format’. This option is a
string which includes two escapes (‘%s’). The first ‘%s’ is replaced
with the sender of the original message, and the second one is replaced
with the original ‘Subject:’. The default value of ‘"%s: %s"’ takes a
message with the header:
To: Bill Wohler <wohler@stop.mail-abuse.org>
Subject: Re: 49er football
From: Greg DesBrisay <gd@stop.mail-abuse.org>
and creates a subject header field of:
Subject: Greg DesBrisay: Re: 49er football
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) See the section Forwarding Messages: forw
(http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/forfor.html) in the MH book.
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