[horde] Attachments in Horde 4

[rodrigoantunes at pelotas.ifsul.edu.br]

Ok. Thanks.

Citando Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting rodrigoantunes at pelotas.ifsul.edu.br:
>
>> Yeah thats right. But it doesn't make much sense to have the 2  
>> options since you could forward a message and delete the attachments
>
> But that's NOT forwarding an attachment.  Forwarding means sending  
> the ENTIRE message, as-is, to the recipient without being able to  
> edit it.
>
> It is extremely dangerous to claim that you are forwarding a message  
> when the forwarded message received by the recipient is not  
> identical to the original message being forwarded.  It also breaks a  
> fair number of things downstream.  Examples:
>
>   - Forwarding a spam/abusive message to an admin, who would want  
> the entire content of the original message to be able to address the  
> situation
>   - Forwarding a message to a spam-reporter program which needs  
> information in the original header
>   - Removing MIME parts from the original message will often make  
> the original message not display correctly.
>
> Simply put, the second you start changing the message that is NOT  
> forwarding.  So you can **NEVER** label it as such.  If you want to  
> send parts of the message to someone else, you need to use the  
> original message as a template and then edit what you need.  Editing  
> won't include original header information and won't indicate the  
> message is a forward, which is both correct.  So you can't label it  
> as Forwarding.
>
> michael
>
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