[imp] Forward a message as an attachment

[jlewis@lewis.org]

For similar reasons, a forward with full headers option would be handy.  
Suppose you're reading mail in IMP and want to forward a spam complaint to 
the ISP from which it came.

On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Kevin Collins wrote:

> 
> Oops.  I managed to overlook that one.  Sorry.  My excuse is that it's too 
> early in the morning and I haven't had anything even approaching the 
> correct amount of coffee yet.
> 
> For the other uses of forward-as-attachment I can look at basing it on the 
> report-as-spam option, I suppose.  That makes life a bit easier.
> 
> Sorry to waste your time
> 
> -Kevin_C
> 
> 
> Quoting Mike Cochrane <mike@graftonhall.co.nz>:
> 
> > 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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> Kevin Collins
> Email Service Manager
> Computing Services
> Heriot Watt University,
> Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
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