OT : Thunderbird, forwarding MIME emails

It doesn't.

Or rather it only takes the first part and throws away the rest.


I recevied an email joke, MIME format, first part plain text, second
part HTML with links to embedded jpgs on the following parts.

First part the HTML text obviously with no images, so completely
useless by itself.

Tell Thunderbird to forward it and it looses all the HTML, the jpgs,
and leaves me with bare text and nothing else.

The *only* way I can find to forward it properly [1] is by using "Edit
as new".

Is this right, or is there a setting I can tweek to tell it to forward
emails verbatim?



[1] Look, its at work, html emails are common, ok?

 

Have you tried setting Forward Messages to 'As Attachment' rather than
'Inline'?

Tools->Options->Composition

 

That sort of does the trick, in that the original email arrives exactly
as it was.

I still can't forward (some) MIME emails and add my own annotations
within it. I guess Thunderbird isn't as intelligent as Outlook in
converting email formats on the fly depending on what you want to do
and if you've edited them or not.

 

Version 1.5.0.10 (20070221)

Don't get me wrong, it works fine most of the time. IIRC I've come
across two emails that do this, both multipart MIME.