Can Gnus forward mails so that lesser readers can also read them?

Can Gnus forward mails so that lesser readers can also read them?

[joakim]

Hello,

Sometimes I get complaints when I forward mails in gnus to receipients
who use mail readers who cant read the forwarded mail properly.

Is there some way to forward a mail so that these mail readers can read
the mail?

I'm not sure what these mail readers are, but perhaps roundcube webmail,
outlook, etc.

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Joakim Verona
joakim@verona.se

Re: Can Gnus forward mails so that lesser readers can also read them?

[Alberto Luaces]

Joakim writes:

> Hello,
>
> Sometimes I get complaints when I forward mails in gnus to receipients
> who use mail readers who cant read the forwarded mail properly.
>
> Is there some way to forward a mail so that these mail readers can read
> the mail?
>
> I'm not sure what these mail readers are, but perhaps roundcube webmail,
> outlook, etc.

Hi Joakim, using arguments with the forwarding command lets you choose
several ways of including the original mail, including just copying its
contents inline.  Please see the documentation of
gnus-summary-mail-forward for details.

-- 
Alberto

Re: Can Gnus forward mails so that lesser readers can also read them?

[Emanuel Berg]

Alberto Luaces wrote:

>> Sometimes I get complaints when I forward
>> mails in gnus to receipients who use mail
>> readers who cant read the forwarded mail
>> properly. Is there some way to forward
>> a mail so that these mail readers can read
>> the mail? I'm not sure what these mail
>> readers are, but perhaps roundcube webmail,
>> outlook, etc.
>
> Hi Joakim, using arguments with the
> forwarding command lets you choose several
> ways of including the original mail,
> including just copying its contents inline.
> Please see the documentation of
> gnus-summary-mail-forward for details.

Yes. You (the OP) can also just reply to the
the mail and edit the destination headers.

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Re: Can Gnus forward mails so that lesser readers can also read them?

[Adam Sjøgren]

joakim@verona.se writes:

> Sometimes I get complaints when I forward mails in gnus to receipients
> who use mail readers who cant read the forwarded mail properly.
>
> Is there some way to forward a mail so that these mail readers can read
> the mail?

There are some variables you can tweak:

  ; Old style forwarding:
  (setq message-forward-as-mime nil)
  (setq message-forward-ignored-headers "^Content-Transfer-Encoding:\\|^X-Gnus\\|^X-From-Line\\|^Return-Path\\|^X-\\|^Delivered-To\\|^Received\\|^Lines\\|^Xref")


(the latter you probably want to add a lot more to).


  Best regards,

    Adam

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Re: Can Gnus forward mails so that lesser readers can also read them?

[Dave Goldberg]

> Sometimes I get complaints when I forward mails in gnus to receipients
> who use mail readers who cant read the forwarded mail properly.
>
> Is there some way to forward a mail so that these mail readers can read
> the mail?
>
> I'm not sure what these mail readers are, but perhaps roundcube webmail,
> outlook, etc.

I get this at work where the majority use outlook but I'm told even some thunderbird users have difficulty when I forward an html formatted email.  The problem is that outlook (and thunderbird) do not inline the text/* parts of the forwarded message, instead splitting them into separate attachments.  It's a little better if I forward as a message/rfc822 - in that case they get a single attachment that is formatted correctly when they open it but that's still pretty annoying and my recipients didn't appreciate it much more.  Lately I've taken to forwarding the message in line but manually selecting the html and running the region through shr-render-region.  That results in a perfectly readable text/plain email.  I run into problems if there are associated images, though.  If I have to forwa
 rd something like that, these days I just punt, open outlook web access and forward from there.

A couple years ago I tried to troubleshoot this, comparing the MIME structure of an email forwarded by outlook and the same email forwarded by Gnus but I could not figure it out.

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Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net

Re: Can Gnus forward mails so that lesser readers can also read them?

[Emanuel Berg]

Dave Goldberg wrote:

> I get this at work where the majority use
> outlook but I'm told even some thunderbird
> users have difficulty when I forward an html
> formatted email.

HTML mails only cause problems and there is no
gain marking 'em up either.

(setq gnus-inhibit-images t)
(setq mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext"))

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