[neomutt-users] config setting to forward complete "raw" or original message?

Sven Guckes neomutt-lists at guckes.net
Sat Sep 30 03:53:34 CEST 2017


* Baron Fujimoto <neomutt.org at monkeybutt.com> [2017-09-30 03:46]:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, Thomas Schneider wrote:
> > > For context, for example, if you want to report spam,
> > > you generally want to provide the complete, spam
> > > payload as delivered in your abuse report, and not
> > > just a rendered version of one of its MIME parts.
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 09:14:32PM +0000, Baron Fujimoto wrote:
> > > I've reviewed the muttrc manpage and mutt's embedded
> > > help, but it's not obvious to me. How do I configure
> > > mutt so that when I forward messages if I have full
> > > headers displayed (h: display-toggle-weed) the full,
> > > original, "raw", message body is included
> > > and not just one of the MIME parts?
> > set mime_forward
> Hmm, that get's me closer, thanks. But it seems to
> structure the forwarded message as an attachment,
> whereas I was hoping it would all be included inline
> in the main body of the forwarded message.
> Alpine, for example seems to do it way.

two workarounds:
(1) save attachment, read it in from within editor.
(2) use alpine. ;-)

> Again, in the context of reporting to abuse desks,
> many of them will not accept attachments. :/

yeah.. pretty silly, indeed!

Sven


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