[kdepim-users] Question about forwarding option on KMail

andy geek_show at dsl.pipex.com
Tue Apr 8 13:20:29 BST 2008


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008 12:49:17 andy wrote:
>   
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tuesday 08 April 2008 11:09:53 andy wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Using KMail 1.9.9. (with KDE 3.5.9.) on a Debian Lenny/Testing system,
>>>> the option to set the preferred manner of forwarding emails seems to
>>>> have been deprecated. I remember that before the upgrade I was able to
>>>> set the preferred forwarding options globally (I prefer in-line).
>>>> However, now it seems to default to forwarding emails as an attachment,
>>>> unless I manually set the preference at the time I forward via the
>>>> Message menu.
>>>>
>>>> How do I change this so that I can revert to my preferred way of
>>>> forwarding as an in-line message rather than as an attachment?
>>>>         
>>> I don't ever recall seeing an option to set that globally, but a more
>>> convenient way than using the menu is to hold the forward button until
>>> the choices appear, then drag down to Inline.  HTH
>>>
>>> Anne
>>>       
>> Thanks Anne. My memory may be faulty, but IIRC prior to the latest
>> upgrade I could click on the icon and the message was automatically
>> forward in-line. Post upgrade, I click on the icon and the message is
>> forwarded is sent an attachment. What the difference is, I can't say. As
>> stated, my preference was for the former. Doing as you suggest is not a
>> lot of extra work, but it is a bit of hassle.
>>
>>     
> I'm always reluctant to trust my memory, but I tend to agree that the default 
> in some other version was inline.  I did look a kmailrc, but couldn't see any 
> reasonable place there to change it either.
>
> Anne
>
>
>   
Yep you're right Anne - I can't see anything relevant in kmailrc either. 
I'm glad that your memory seems to resonate with my own about the 
previous in-line. Have you recently upgraded too? If so, I am wondering 
if this might be a bug (or is that a feature? :) )

Andy

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