Dnia 8.06.2026 o godz. 14:48:26 Slavko via mailop pisze: > Dňa 8. júna 2026 14:07:19 UTC používateľ Mark Stone via mailop > <[email protected]> napísal: > > >If an email really does need to be "forwarded", I've advised my customers > > to copy the email to the clipboard and paste it into a new email to the > > intended recipient (what would have been the forwardee). > > Or use MUA capable of that...
Forwarding in MUAs (when clicking the "forward" button) generally works that way. It creates a new message, with you being the sender, subject copied from the original mail, usually with "FW:" added in the front, and either the contents copied from the original mail (including basic headers like "From:" and "To:", which are included in *body* of the new message), or the original mail attached as message/rfc822 MIME part (depending on the MUA and its configuration). Forwarding via MUA and auto-forwarding via .forward file or aliases are two *completely different* things. The former creates a completely new message, with the user forwarding the message being the sender, the latter preserves the original message and sender, causing trouble for SPF/DMARC. In short, you don't need to copy and paste anything, you just need to click the "forward" button in the MUA... Some MUAs (not all) also have a "resend" or "redirect" function - which is usually hidden in the UI and harder to access than "regular" forward - that behaves like the latter case (ie. preserves the complete original message including sender). That will of course cause trouble similar to autoforwarding - but it's not a default forwarding mode in any MUA, so there's little probability an inexperienced user will use this. If someone uses this functionality, he/she probably knows what it does and how it differs from "regular" forwarding. -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa [email protected] -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
