[MlMt] How to forward a message without quoting/indenting?

Randall Gellens mailmate at randy.pensive.org
Sun Feb 2 23:19:51 EST 2025


On 1 Feb 2025, at 20:06, leo wrote:

> I guess I state my use case here, right?:
>
>   - Firstly, sometimes I forward a long email like a newsletter, etc 
> to a Read Later service (e.g. Instapaper) and then I want to have the 
> (HTML) email as is in the Read later service and not the indented 
> version.
>
>   - Also, sometimes I forward an email for reading to my wife. Then 
> she doesn’t need indenting, but rather wants the (HTML) email as is.
>
> As mentioned before when I undo the indenting by hand, it 
> breaks/discards the original HTML. This is not indented here, because 
> I do not really want to edit the original mail.

The easiest way to do this is to use the "Message->Redirect" command. 
That preserves the original from and format. In cases where your SMTP 
provider is finicky, use "Message->Edit as New Message" instead. This 
preserves the original message format but puts you as the from.

--Randall
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