[MlMt] forwarding HTML emails

[Bill Cole]

On 16 Jan 2018, at 18:00 (-0500), Tracy Valleau wrote:

> Hello
> Do I take it that  forwarding HTML emails can still only be done via 
> attachment?

Not if you're using the 2.0BETA series, which has a plethora of controls 
for perpetuating a bad idea in the Composer panel of the Preferences...

> If so, I'm curious as to why, technically. Since MM can show HTML 
> emails now,

When couldn't it? I adopted MM circa v1.5 and my first pestering of 
Benny was to work out how to make it easier to config MM to only render 
HTML when absolutely needed.

> why can't it (just)  forward them?

This is fundamentally problematic because "just forward them" does not 
have a well-defined technical meaning other than embedding the full 
original message as an attachment. If you want something else, I *THINK* 
the MM options for tweaking HTML forwarding should give you something 
you can live with.

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