[Tickets #3381] "forward" handles multipart/alternative incorrectly

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=3381
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 Ticket             | 3381
 Updated By         | jmorzins at mit.edu
 Summary            | "forward" handles multipart/alternative incorrectly
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | HEAD
 State              | Assigned
 Priority           | 3. High
 Type               | Enhancement
 Owners             | Michael Slusarz
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jmorzins at mit.edu (2006-04-19 10:37) wrote:

> + multipart/alternative
>   + text/plain
>   + text/html
>   + application/pdf

An excellent example!  Thank you for including it.

> But when I forward this kind of message (which I often do), what I 
> really want is that application/pdf part to make it to the next user. 

I suggest that you could choose to "Forward entire message as MIME
attachment".  The message will be forwarded as a message/rfc822 attachment,
successfully passing the entire multipart/alternative tree onward to the
next recipient.  (You can do this from the folder index -- put a checkmark
on the line with the message, and click the "forward" command from above the
list of messages.  And yes, it would be nice if there were a way to invoke
the "forward as MIME" command directly while viewing a message.)

Most people won't be as sophisticated as you, and will be content with a
simpler scheme, where IMP picks just one part of the multipart/alternative
bundle, and forwards that one part.