Hi Esther and others,
This worked! I changed the setting to default and now just have the usual
headings. I suspect that as a new Mac user in 2009 I probably changed the
setting myself when trying to get mail to show me something or do something for
me. I then transferred the setting each time i migrated to a new computer. And
the setting held each time I upgraded my operating system.
I'm so very pleased to be able to use forward again in this efficient
manner.
You may ask why I waited 5 years to ask. I have seen this question
come up on Mac lists before. this is the first time I read a working answer.
Thanks to all who stuck in there to help me get a answer. And, Esther,
you rock!
Eric Caron
On May 20, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Esther <mori...@mac-access.net> wrote:
> Hi Laurie,
>
> You're welcome. I thought Zack had provided Eric with an answer to his
> question about not having to read forwarded headers earlier in this thread.
> It turns out that you can toggle on or off the viewing of the detailed mail
> information with Command-Shift-H, as Zack stated, but this is separate from
> the header data information specified in the "Viewing" pane of your Mail
> Preferences. In other words, even if I have "Show header detail" set to
> "None" so that I don't get extraneous information in the body of my forwarded
> email, toggling on viewing of detailed mail information on the mail headers
> with Command-Shift-H displays detailed information about the mail server,
> etc. for my mail headers.
>
> I'm still puzzled about why the "Show header detail" popup button on the
> "Viewing" pane of Mail preferences should be set to a value other than
> "Default", if it was not specifically changed. Like Sarah, I've never had to
> change my mail settings from the viewing defaults, and hadn't seen this
> problem for forwarded mail. And, as Eric stated earlier, most individuals
> would not want this level of information as the default behavior for their
> forwarded emails.
>
> I hope this fixes the problem, because otherwise this seems like something
> that would originate from the mail servers or Internet Service being used.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Esther
>
> On May 20, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Laurie Mehta wrote:
>
>> Thanks very much Esther! Your knowledge and willingness to share it are
>> greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Laurie
>> --------------------------------------------
>> On Tue, 5/20/14, Esther wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eric, Laurie, and
>> Others,
>>
>> To eliminate
>> verbose header data in forwarded mail messages, bring up
>> your Mail preferences (Cmd+Comma), navigate to the
>> "Viewing" button on your toolbar, and press it. On
>> the "Viewing" pane, navigate to the popup button
>> for "Show header detail", VO-space, and change the
>> popup to "None".
>>
>> You might want to check your current setting
>> for header detail. When I select "Default", the
>> forwarded header fields are "From",
>> "Subject", "Date", and "To".
>> When I select "None", all those fields are left
>> off, and only the content of the message is forwarded.
>> Selecting "All" includes all the header
>> information in forwarded mail.
>>
>> HTH. Cheers,
>>
>> Esther
>>
>>
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