[Gmail-Users] Re: GMail Sans "Forward as Attachment" & "Redirect" Capability

On 18/12/05, Gerard <Gerard.Seibert@gmail.com> wrote:

It has come to my attention that GMail does not support the "forward
as attachment" per RFC 822 recommendations. In fact, it does not
support this concept at all.

I personally find this to be a serious liability for the GMail program.
I have also discovered that there is no "redirect" function either.
Both of these features are employed by most high quality MUA's. I
believe it would behoove Google to consider their implementation into
there mail system.

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I have never found Outlook's support for this function either (although I haven't been looking and IMHO Outlook isn't particularly high quality as MUAs go - I prefer KMail).  As it is just a recommendation then I don't think that it is necessary, and I think that anybody who wants to forward an email will not be particularly bothered about the lack of a Redirect or Forward as Attachment functions.

I think that it is a loss, however, if GMail does not support the receiving of these attachments, as your post seems to suggest, as many users of other MUAs might want to forward messages as attachments.


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James Whitehead
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