* Derek Martin [2007.03.14 19:30]: > I consider this to be utterly and completely > broken, and I'm considering reporting it as a > bug, but I'm waiting to see what other people > think.
>From my limited understanding, when a message is mime-encoded, the *whole body* is a set of attachments, including what you refer to as the body, which is the part you composed before sending the message. So when you set mime_forward=yes, it's *consistent* to put the body of the original message as an attachment. I agree it's annoying, because we, as users, distinguish between the body and the attachments. But, and again if I'm wrong somebody correct me, mime doesn't make that distinction. So the behavior you (and I) want is actually a special case where you want the *first* attachment to be quoted but not the others, regardless of their mime type. Note that the behavior is perfectly ok when the attachments are not of type text/*. I guess what we need is a bit of control into the "heuristics" mutt uses to determine whether or not to quote the message when forwarding/replying. Note also that mutt is not *always* consistent. For example when in the attach menu, if there are multiple text attachments and I press "e" to edit the message, I get only the part I composed. Not the text attachments. I agree with Gary this is not a bug, but would be a nice feature. -- JR
