How to reply *with* attachment
Andrea M.
reply *with* that attachment I have to choose forward instead of reply,
is there a way to simply reply?
Many thanks.
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Ciao, Andrea
Lindsay Graham
I don't know of a way, Andrea, and I doubt there is one (but others know
much more than I do). I've used Outlook, OE, WM and WLM and, to my
recollection, they all act the way Tbird does. Probably the logic is
"Nobody will ever want to send an attachment back to the person who has
just sent it them".
Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia
responder
If the attachments come to you in-line, won't they will be included in
the reply..?
Mike Easter
> Hi all, every time I receive an email with an attachment, and I want to
> reply *with* that attachment I have to choose forward instead of reply,
> is there a way to simply reply?
I don't understand the rationale behind replying to an email which has
an attachment with the same attachment. The person who sent the
attachment already has the attachment. It seems that you would be
'cluttering up' cyberspace and their Inbox.
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Mike Easter
John H Meyers
> Hi all, every time I receive an email with an attachment, and I want to
> reply *with* that attachment I have to choose forward instead of reply,
> is there a way to simply reply?
If you mean that you want to send back an _updated_ attachment,
then you must attach the updated separate file.
Although you can just "forward" and fill in the original sender's address,
this will normally send the unmodified original attachment; alternatively,
you can "reply" and attach the separate, updated file.
To open and then edit an original attachment,
make sure that you save the edited file in a non-temporary location,
or else your edits may be lost upon closing the document.
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Andrea M.
I have to send back the attachment, to the original sender and to more
people too, to approve it, I was used to do this using Lotus Notes,
where I had the choice to reply with or without the attachment.
Ciao, Andrea
Frank Kuypers
Yep they do !!! I have this all the time when I receive photos fm friends
//FJK
John H Meyers
> I have to send back the attachment, to the original sender and to more
> people too, to approve it, I was used to do this using Lotus Notes,
> where I had the choice to reply with or without the attachment.
In that case, how about "forward" and then fill in the original sender,
as well as new recipients?
Otherwise you'll have to extract and re-attach.
If, by any chance, you ever have to edit the original attachment,
before approving it,
then be sure to save the updated document in a non-temporary location
and re-attach, as previously mentioned.
(Yes, I have received "help" calls from clients who have edited and re-saved
incoming documents to a temporary "extract to open and view" location,
then lost the edited results,
although I don't recall which email client these folks were using --
let's blame it on Microsoft, which is always a good place to point fingers :)
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Mike Easter
Then I would consider that a 'forward' - someone sent you an email
(which incidentally has an attachment) and you are forwarding that same
email on to others - as a mechanism of approval - and you are 'copying'
(including in the forwarded addresses) the originator of the email
(which incidentally has an attachment).
That email attachment will be in your forward email - which isn't a 'reply'.
IMO, of course :-)
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Mike Easter
clay
Since no one has mentioned it (yet), 'Message>Edit message as new' will
also allow you to reply with the attachment.
btw, not such an unreasonable request...
Mom, who knows nothing about computers, and at 74, no desire to start
learning, had a similar situation a while back.
Her choir group sends around a word.doc or spreadsheet. Members edit it
and send it around some more.
Mom opened it from within Thunderbird, made some changes, then replied
to the email.
Then she wonders why the attachment didn't go...
She can't get into 'have to save it first, find it and update, then find
it again and send it again'.
Mike Easter
clay wrote:
> Mom, who knows nothing about computers, and at 74, no desire to start
> learning,
Mom who knows nothing about computers...
> Her choir group sends around a word.doc or spreadsheet. Members edit it
> and send it around some more.
> Mom opened it from within Thunderbird, made some changes, then replied
> to the email.
... fires up her computer, fetches her email, accesses her word
processor, edits the .doc, and then sends the reply email with doc attached.
She gets critiqued for 'logistics style' because she didn't handle the
edited .doc properly for sending along, but not - 'knows nothing about
computers'.
Besides, the choir group should probably do it - this doc sharing and
share editing - differently with google docs or something.
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Mike Easter
Andrea M.
Thank you for your reply, I already forward and refill the original
sender and some colleagues, I was wondering there was some third part
extension :-)
Ciao, Andrea
Andrea M.
Thank you for your reply, but I noticed that if I choose to edit as new
I miss the "Re" prefix in the subject and the quote (>) in the body,
it's easier to forward and refill the "to" fields :-)
Ciao, Andrea
clay
Mom's computer skills, better than she will admit to and better than she
ever wanted, are beside the point.
She chose the obvious way to reply to an email containing a doc and it
didn't work.
Then she learned another way.
Teaching mom computer stuff is not so tough.
Teaching her in a way so she doesn't blue screen while learning it is
the challenge.
Chad
I do follow up emails for quotes that our estimators send out to customers. I am originally CC'd on all the quotes being sent out so being able to hit a reply with attachments button would save me worlds of time not having to forward the original email then copy all of the email addresses.
We have a set criteria for following up which is a few weeks after the quote is originally sent, so we need to include the quote again so the customers know what we are asking about.
Chad
Keith Nuttle
You may be able to accomplish what you want to do using this technique.
In the Account Settings --->Copies & Folders:
There are options to CC email messages to multiple Email address.
There is also an option to Bcc to multiple email addresses.
There may be another option that would do the same thing
In Message there is the option to Edit Message as New (Ctrl E)
This brings up the message (Sent or received) as a new message for
editing.
You can then just send it, make changes, what ever you do to a new message