mutt question

[John Stasko]

In the email program mutt, how do you forward an email and have an
attachment go along with the mail? Right now when I forward
something, only the text body goes, and I haven't been able to figure
out how to forward an attachment by a cursory look of the
documentation. Thanks.
--John
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[Peter Jensen]

John Stasko <sta...@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> In the email program mutt, how do you forward an email and have an
> attachment go along with the mail? Right now when I forward
> something, only the text body goes, and I haven't been able to figure
> out how to forward an attachment by a cursory look of the
> documentation. Thanks.

I'd love it if a more mutt-knowledgeable person would correct/enhance
my answer, but I use some macros from
http://dotfiles.com/files/27/97_muttrc.txt (and probably elsewhere)
that do what I need.

Basically, I can do escape-f to forward w/ attachments, or just "f"
to forward. Other setups are certainly possible. These macros use "f"
and "F", but I use "F" for something else.

# Forward without attachments
macro index f ":set mime_forward=no\n<forward-message>"
macro pager f ":set mime_forward=no\n<forward-message>"
# Forward with attachments
macro index F ":set mime_forward=yes\n:set mime_forward_decode=no\n<forward-message>"
macro pager F ":set mime_forward=yes\n:set mime_forward_decode=no\n<forward-message>"

I'm curious as to how one would get the attachments to be not encapsulated in another layer of MIME -- I'd just like to have them tagged onto the new message, just as they were on the one I received.

Thanks,
Peter