Thunderbird - Forwarding Attachments:-

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Waaib

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2 weeks since installing it and I'm loving Thunderbird. I'm using version 2.0. The last remaining issue that I can't seem to find a fix for on the net is how it sends attachments. Actually it's how it doesn't send them. I get lots of emails with PDF's attached and quite a few images in them - HTML style. They are faxes from an online fax service. I need to forward the faxes.

In Outlook when you have an email open you just click forward and the attachments (faxes in this case) are automatically attached in the forward.

In Thunderbird it initially would attach the whole email so the recipient would get an email with an email attached. Then have to open the attached email and then open the pdf.

I changed the forwarding setting to 'Inline'. Now it forwards the body of the email but not the PDF attachment.

I want to be able to send one email with just the pdf attached. The only way I seem to be able to do this is first save the attachment and then re-attach it. Very laborious and because they all have similar names it gets confusing too.

Any ideas what I should do to just be able to click forward and have the thing forward the email as is.
 
Also would like to know.

Been using thunderbird for 7 mail accounts. Seems quite slow though with some serious CPU usage.

Any non MS/BAT alternatives that rival thunderbird for BIG mail accounts?

(Can't stand the idea of using MS)
 
I cant find a way how to forward a email that never went through.Outlook is so simple in doing all these things but its not as portable as thunderbird.
 
Kokop said:
Also would like to know.

Been using thunderbird for 7 mail accounts. Seems quite slow though with some serious CPU usage.

Any non MS/BAT alternatives that rival thunderbird for BIG mail accounts?

(Can't stand the idea of using MS)
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try using it from usb stick,very slow when it comes to deleting stuff
 
No problem

I am using Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 on Windows XP.

I do not have any problems forwarding attachments. I also did not have to tweak any settings to achieve this.


:rolleyes:
 
I love thunderbird but forwarding always requires a save to desktop and then sending the mail.

Sucks that it cannot do it lol, but i love it so much i deal with it :)

trying .16 now hope they fix it.

Nope still broken
 
zaphod said:
I am using Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 on Windows XP.

I do not have any problems forwarding attachments. I also did not have to tweak any settings to achieve this.:rolleyes:
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I'm also using .16.

Does yours send just the attached file as an attachment or the whole email as a .eml?
 
Waaib said:
I'm also using .16.

Does yours send just the attached file as an attachment or the whole email as a .eml?
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It sends just the attached file.

Check your settings at:

Tools->Options->Composition

See at "Forwarding messages", that the "Inline" option is selected.
 
zaphod said:
It sends just the attached file.

Check your settings at:

Tools->Options->Composition

See at "Forwarding messages", that the "Inline" option is selected.
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Dude if we ever meet i will dry hump your leg.

Its working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Sorry to hijack this thread, but it is related.

Does your Thunderbird ever freeze up just after the mail has been sent? The message window (that you typed the email in) will just freeze up, the mail has been sent, though.

It's no biggie, I just close Thunderbird and launch it again and I don't lose data, but it's annoying.

.16 aswell, no addons installed (yet)
 
Mine has always been set to inline. What I found out now is that some emails work exactly as desired but others don't. It seem to be something to do with HTML vs Rich text vs plain text. I'm not sure.

If I send myself an email from work to my thuderbird account and click forward it attaches fine.
When I get the faxes (lots of HTML with PDF attached) it doesn't.

Any ideas?
 
Thanks for the tips.

Does any know how to set the default "send message" to HTML instead of it asking every time?

thanks in advance.

Ko
 
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