[imp] Forward a message as an attachment

[Mike Cochrane]

If you enable the report as spam option in your imp config then your users with
have simple link to click that sends the message as an attachment to the
configured email address. 

- Mike :-)

> ----- Message from K.J.Collins@hw.ac.uk ---------
>     Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 07:28:10 +0100
>     From: Kevin Collins <K.J.Collins@hw.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: Kevin Collins <K.J.Collins@hw.ac.uk>
>  Subject: [imp] Forward a message as an attachment
>       To: imp@lists.horde.org
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Would there be much mileage in adding a forward-message-as-attachment
> feature to IMP?  At my site we get quite a lot of messages being reported
> to the abuse@hw address and we've managed to train the majority of our
> users to forward the offending message as an attachment.  This gives us the
> full headers of the offending message as well as details about who is
> making the complaint.  Without this feature we have a problem - either the
> complainer details are missing if they use the Resend function (unless you
> go digging into the headers to find the Resent-from lines) or you don't get
> the full headers of the message they're complaining about.  There are other
> uses for forward-as-attachment as well, such as re-distributing a message
> in its entirety but with comments from the original recipient.
> 
> I'm not sure about how this would work.  In Netscape messenger the forward-
> as-attachment is set in the user preferences and I think that this would be
> a good place to have it in IMP.  An alternative would be to have a 'button'
> on the message display, beside the existing Forward 'button'.
> 
> I'll have a go at this second method unless someone has already achieved
> this. In which case... care to share?
> 
> -Kev
> 
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