Forwarding html emails with kmail?

[Duncan]

Mike Diehl posted on Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:32:51 -0600 as excerpted:

> I'm using KDE 4.4.2.  When I receive an html email message and try to
> forward it to someone else, what ends up getting forwarded is a text
> message without any formating.  Is this a known limitation, or am I
> doing something wrong?

AFAIK you're doing something wrong.  

There's multiple types of forwarding.

It does appear that, at least as of kde 4.5.1 (with kdepim 4.4.6 since 
kdepim 4.5 wasn't full-released yet and is still beta, kdepim 4.4.6 
includes kmail 1.13.5), if you forward INLINE, even if you have your 
replies set to HTML formatting, the raw HTML formatting appears.  (Note 
that I only just checked how it appears in the composer.  I consider HTML 
mail a bad enough thing that I wouldn't actually send it anywhere, even to 
myself as a test, to see how it's actually parsed on receipt.)

However, if you forward AS ATTACHMENT, the whole existing mail as-is is 
encapsulated in an attachment.  This will include all headers and all 
existing parts (both attachments and text formats, plain and HTML if both 
were in the original), nested as sub-parts of the new main attachment.

Forwarding AS ATTACHMENT is the preferred method for reporting spam, etc, 
to abuse@ addresses and the like, because unlike forwarding inline, it 
/does/ forward the whole thing as a unit, so all headers, etc, plus all 
potential attachments such as malware, that might be necessary for 
forensic evidence, is packed up and included.  Of course, because it 
/does/ forward everything as a unit, it will by definition forward HTML 
mail as such.

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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