[Pine-info] Attach/forward e-mail at the end of a reply

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:


> I want to reply to an e-mail AND forward/attach another e-mail to my reply.



>

> 1. In Alpine select the mail which is to be attached/inserted to the

>   reply and hit F for "forward message".

> 2. Save the so created message as text file (including "Forwarded

>   Message" line), but don't send it.

> 3. Reply to the e-mail and insert the previously saved text file at the

>   end of the reply.


I would do like this :

   1) enter message to be attached and Export it to a file (could as
      well Save it to a folder instead of Exporting)
   2) Reply to mail, and either user ^R in body to include the file
      (I won't bother about the "Forwarded" line or add a custom one,
      it's not standard anyhow) or better use ^J in header to attach
      it.

Alternatively

   1) compose message reply, ^O to postpone it, go into postponed
      folder and Export it to file (if reply is long). Otherwise
      just copy-and-paste to some external clipboard utility (I use
      xclipboard under Linux). In general I use the clipboard to
      concatenate several replies (e.g. to different messages of a thread
      in a discussion)

   2) go to message to be forwarded and Forward (if you deem the
      fwd and "Forwarded" line valuable) then use ^R to include the
      saved file on top or bottom as you prefer

Alternatively again

   1) compose message reply and postpone
   2) go to postponed folder and move it to the folder where the
      message to be forwarded is
   3) select both messages (with : )
   4) use A F (Apply Forward) to send both as a MIME digest

Pity that MIME digests are not handled as virtual folders by Alpine.

I do not find any of the above solutions very time consuming.


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