[dev] Forward message with separate attachments

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Gonçalo Queirós <goncalo.queiros at portugalmail.net>:

> On 03/29/2011 06:58 PM, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
>> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting goncalo.queiros at portugalmail.net:
>>>
>>>> Hi there list.
>>>>
>>>> The current behaviour when you forward a message with attachments is
>>>> a bit
>>>> strange, since you can't choose which attachments you really want to
>>>> send
>>
>> [Looks like I hit the issue with early termination of a sent mail
>> message :(  Here's my full response:]
>>
>> This was incorrect behavior.  The idea of forwarding a mail message is
>> to forward the ENTIRE message - meaning, you are redirecting the
>> entire contents of the original message to another person. (The
>> difference between redirect and forward is that with redirect you, as
>> the redirector, are transparent - the message looks like it came from
>> the original sender.  Forwarding allows you to add notes/additional
>> data )
>>
>> What you are asking for (and what Horde used to do) is instead a form
>> of attachment file selection - in this case, using files stored in a
>> remote e-mail message vs. the normal method of attaching files stored
>> on the users' computer.  But at an abstract level, this isn't
>> "forwarding" the message at all.  So it is just plain wrong behavior
>> to have this behavior as a forward option.
>
> Ok, i understand what you said, and your point of view. The problem is
> that no one else presents that behaviour (at least Gmail, Yahoo and
> Thunderbird), since they all let you choose which attachments you want
> to forward.

I agree. Also see https://twitter.com/#!/wbond/statuses/13041486953. I  
have this saved because I think it gets to the heart of what a lot of  
people find less than ideal about our UI.

-chuck