Mihail Konev wrote: > When forwarding a message, mutt catenates all the attachments into the > body. > > Is this a correct behaviour? > How to avoid it?
The behavior is controlled by the mime_forward variable. The default value is the traditional way mailers have always handled mail. It may optionally select mime attachments. Here is the section of the mutt manual that describes it. 7. Forwarding and Bouncing Mail ... Forwarding can be done by including the original message in the new message's body (surrounded by indicating lines) or including it as a MIME attachment, depending on the value of the $mime_forward variable. Decoding of attachments, like in the pager, can be controlled by the $forward_decode and $mime_forward_decode variables, respectively. The desired forwarding format may depend on the content, therefore $mime_forward is a quadoption which, for example, can be set to "ask-no". The inclusion of headers is controlled by the current setting of the $weed variable, unless $mime_forward is set. ...
