Re: Reply with another email as attachment?
On 14.03.18 10:48, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2018-03-15 00:37, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > Yup, forward: > > View the email to attach. > > Hit 'f', and mutt will prompt: Forward as attachment? ([yes]/no): > > Hit Enter, compose the accompanying email, with forward address, > > etc. > > I just tried this (both with an individual message as well as tagging > multiple and using ";f" to forward the tagged messages) and they > ended up in-line by default. It looks like you might have to fiddle > with the mime_forward quad-option which defaults to "no", setting it > to an "ask*" option. Uh-oh, you're right. Dusting off my .muttrc, I see that I set mime_forward to ask-yes. Erik
Re: Reply with another email as attachment?
On 2018-03-14, Scott Kostyshakwrote: > I have no idea if the following is good advice or not, but I'll mention > it and let you investigate, unless the other method works well for you. > > You can "bounce" an email with the "b" key. [...] I've found that another disadvantage of bouncing e-mails to addresses that aren't contained in the message headers is that some e-mail systems will think they're spam and discard them. What I don't grok is how an SMTP server would differentiate between a bounced message and a bcc'd message. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! RHAPSODY in Glue! at gmail.com
Re: Reply with another email as attachment?
On (14/03/18 12:01), Scott Kostyshakput forth the proposition: On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:48:56PM +, David Woodfall wrote: I have recently been in a discussion with a tech support person about some emails that I have been receiving and I was asked to attach one of them to a test email that she sent me. I couldn't find how to do that, apart from actually finding the file and attaching it that way. When I pressed 'a' to attach and then '?' for a list I had a list of my folders up, but mutt wouldn't let me enter them and gave a 'couldn't attach ' error. Is there a way of doing this? I have no idea if the following is good advice or not, but I'll mention it and let you investigate, unless the other method works well for you. You can "bounce" an email with the "b" key. The advantage of this is that I believe the recipient will see the email just as you saw it. i.e. all of the headers will be the same. When you attach an email (as per the other solution), I'm not sure the headers are preserved. The disadvantage is that the email will look strange if the person is not expecting it (because the To: header will be to you!), so you should always warn the recipient (in my case, usually a tech team). Best, Scott -- Scott Kostyshak Assistant Professor of Economics University of Florida https://people.clas.ufl.edu/skostyshak/ In this case I had to attach one email to another and send it back to the tech support person, so using the 'A' to attach is perfect.
Re: Reply with another email as attachment?
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:48:56PM +, David Woodfall wrote: > I have recently been in a discussion with a tech support person about > some emails that I have been receiving and I was asked to attach one > of them to a test email that she sent me. > > I couldn't find how to do that, apart from actually finding the file > and attaching it that way. When I pressed 'a' to attach and then '?' > for a list I had a list of my folders up, but mutt wouldn't let me enter > them and gave a 'couldn't attach ' error. > > Is there a way of doing this? I have no idea if the following is good advice or not, but I'll mention it and let you investigate, unless the other method works well for you. You can "bounce" an email with the "b" key. The advantage of this is that I believe the recipient will see the email just as you saw it. i.e. all of the headers will be the same. When you attach an email (as per the other solution), I'm not sure the headers are preserved. The disadvantage is that the email will look strange if the person is not expecting it (because the To: header will be to you!), so you should always warn the recipient (in my case, usually a tech team). Best, Scott -- Scott Kostyshak Assistant Professor of Economics University of Florida https://people.clas.ufl.edu/skostyshak/
Re: Reply with another email as attachment?
On 2018-03-15 00:37, Erik Christiansen wrote: > Yup, forward: > View the email to attach. > Hit 'f', and mutt will prompt: Forward as attachment? ([yes]/no): > Hit Enter, compose the accompanying email, with forward address, > etc. I just tried this (both with an individual message as well as tagging multiple and using ";f" to forward the tagged messages) and they ended up in-line by default. It looks like you might have to fiddle with the mime_forward quad-option which defaults to "no", setting it to an "ask*" option. -tkc
Re: Reply with another email as attachment?
On (14/03/18 14:22), Bastianput forth the proposition: On 14Mar18 12:48 +, David Woodfall wrote: I couldn't find how to do that, apart from actually finding the file and attaching it that way. When I pressed 'a' to attach and then '?' for a list I had a list of my folders up, but mutt wouldn't let me enter them and gave a 'couldn't attach ' error. Is there a way of doing this? a - attach-file- attach file(s) to this message A - attach-message - attach message(s) to this message I don't remember all the keybindings. I have to look up especially those which are rarely used. I find it really helpful to hit '?' on the current view to get the list of keybindings along with their description. You can search within that list with '/'. In your case, searching for 'attach' you'll find the command 'attach-message'. Maybe this helps a bit. Cheers, -- Bastian Thanks, 'A' does the trick. Dave
Re: Reply with another email as attachment?
On (15/03/18 00:37), Erik Christiansenput forth the proposition: On 14.03.18 12:48, David Woodfall wrote: I have recently been in a discussion with a tech support person about some emails that I have been receiving and I was asked to attach one of them to a test email that she sent me. I couldn't find how to do that, apart from actually finding the file and attaching it that way. When I pressed 'a' to attach and then '?' for a list I had a list of my folders up, but mutt wouldn't let me enter them and gave a 'couldn't attach ' error. Is there a way of doing this? Yup, forward: View the email to attach. Hit 'f', and mutt will prompt: Forward as attachment? ([yes]/no): Hit Enter, compose the accompanying email, with forward address, etc. Erik When I press 'f' I just get a 'To' prompt, then it goes straight to the send window.
Re: Reply with another email as attachment?
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 02:22:26PM +0100, Bastian wrote: > On 14Mar18 12:48 +, David Woodfall wrote: > > I couldn't find how to do that, apart from actually finding the file > > and attaching it that way. When I pressed 'a' to attach and then '?' > > for a list I had a list of my folders up, but mutt wouldn't let me enter > > them and gave a 'couldn't attach ' error. > > > > Is there a way of doing this? > > a - attach-file- attach file(s) to this message > A - attach-message - attach message(s) to this message > > I don't remember all the keybindings. I have to look up especially those > which are rarely used. I find it really helpful to hit '?' on the > current view to get the list of keybindings along with their > description. You can search within that list with '/'. In your case, > searching for 'attach' you'll find the command 'attach-message'. Maybe > this helps a bit. Whoop! This is much cleaner! Yubin
Re: Reply with another email as attachment?
On 14.03.18 12:48, David Woodfall wrote: > I have recently been in a discussion with a tech support person about > some emails that I have been receiving and I was asked to attach one > of them to a test email that she sent me. > > I couldn't find how to do that, apart from actually finding the file > and attaching it that way. When I pressed 'a' to attach and then '?' > for a list I had a list of my folders up, but mutt wouldn't let me enter > them and gave a 'couldn't attach ' error. > > Is there a way of doing this? Yup, forward: View the email to attach. Hit 'f', and mutt will prompt: Forward as attachment? ([yes]/no): Hit Enter, compose the accompanying email, with forward address, etc. Erik
Re: Reply with another email as attachment?
On 14Mar18 12:48 +, David Woodfall wrote: > I couldn't find how to do that, apart from actually finding the file > and attaching it that way. When I pressed 'a' to attach and then '?' > for a list I had a list of my folders up, but mutt wouldn't let me enter > them and gave a 'couldn't attach ' error. > > Is there a way of doing this? a - attach-file- attach file(s) to this message A - attach-message - attach message(s) to this message I don't remember all the keybindings. I have to look up especially those which are rarely used. I find it really helpful to hit '?' on the current view to get the list of keybindings along with their description. You can search within that list with '/'. In your case, searching for 'attach' you'll find the command 'attach-message'. Maybe this helps a bit. Cheers, -- Bastian
Reply with another email as attachment?
I have recently been in a discussion with a tech support person about some emails that I have been receiving and I was asked to attach one of them to a test email that she sent me. I couldn't find how to do that, apart from actually finding the file and attaching it that way. When I pressed 'a' to attach and then '?' for a list I had a list of my folders up, but mutt wouldn't let me enter them and gave a 'couldn't attach ' error. Is there a way of doing this?