Feature suggestion: Attachment message/rfc822

[Hem...@atecom.com]

Hi everybody,

if one gets a mail forwarded, it'll often be a message/rfc822 attachment.
I'd be nice if one could extract this message to some mail folder, that way
recovering the original message (that one can reply to, again forward it ...).

Currently this does not seem to be possible (or did I miss it?).

Regards,
C. Hemsing

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[Phil Peterson]

Hem...@ATecoM.com wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> if one gets a mail forwarded, it'll often be a message/rfc822 attachment.
> I'd be nice if one could extract this message to some mail folder, that way
> recovering the original message (that one can reply to, again forward it ...).
>
> Currently this does not seem to be possible (or did I miss it?).

I think that is possible, but the UI may not be obvious. The forwarded
message is treated as an attachment, so if you click on the paperclip
icon next to the message's headers, you'll see the "attachment pane" at
the bottom of the message display area. From there, you can save or open
the forwarded message.

I thought there used to be a Save Attachment menu item in the File menu
too, but I guess not.

-- Phil.

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Netscape mail/news client engineering

[Chris Hemsing]

Phil Peterson wrote:

Hi,
saving doesn't help you, because one would like to save the message it into some
mail folder NOT to some file. And when you open the attachment, it will be opened
with the browser and NOT the message reading window. Thus you cannot do things you
would normally like to do with mails e.g replying.

Regards,
Chris Hemsing

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[Phil Peterson]

Hmm. This seems bug-like to me. Jeff, isn't there a way to save the
attachment as a first-class mail folder? Or can we only save top-level
messages like that?

-- Phil.

[Jeff Tsai]

No, we don't have a way to save the attachment as the first class mail folder. We need
to special case for message/rfc822 attachments.

-- Jeff

[Jay]

Hem...@ATecoM.com wrote:

>if one gets a mail forwarded, it'll often be a message/rfc822 attachment.

Is this only coming from AOL, or are there other mailers that do it too? Using
message/rfc822 for forwards seemed like the Right Thing To Do at the time, but
I'm no longer so certain.

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