Bug 68917

Summary:	inline (no attachment) forwarding with headers intact [for spam reporting]
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Alain Knaff <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	opensource
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Alain Knaff 2003-11-24 08:38:44 UTC

Version:           1.5.4 (using KDE 3.1.4)
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.21

Currently kmail has two ways of forwarding mails:
 1. A straight inline forward (Shift-F) which allows editing of forwarded text, but drops most headers of forwarded mail, and munges attachments
 2. Forwart as attachment (F), which attaches the whole mail, keeping it intact, but allows no editing

Unfortunately, both methods are unsuitable for spam forwarding to spamcop.net:
 [1] is unsuitable because spamcop needs all headers (d'oh...)
 [2] is unsuitable because spamcop has a size limit of 50 KB for its spam subminissions. Recently, spammers have found this out, and are now making sure that their mails are over this magic limit. Spamcop's recommandation is to edit the mails and strip out the unnecessary fluff before forwarding. But unfortunately, forward-as-attachment allows no easy editing.

Leaves only the possibility of view-as-source + copy-paste-into-new-message, which is cumbersome. Would it be possible to have a forward-inline-verbatim option, which would keep headers and attachments as is, maybe even with a warning if a user-settable size is exceeded?

Comment 1 Mathieu Jobin 2004-01-05 05:17:00 UTC

well, usualy, I simply select ALL my spam at once, click forward, and they are all attached. and forward them all in a single send to spamcop. some minutes later I receive a notification of spam accepted for whatever.

maybe most of them are less than 50kb, i dont know.
even if limit should be a bit bigger. I never had that problem and forwarding multiple mail at once is an awesome feature to me. thanks kmail.

maybe kmail could allow to forward-as-attachement with auto-remove of child's attachement.

anyway, inline attachement with headers its a nice idea. but that won't allow multiple send,... since there is never much than body and attachement at the end of a mail, I think a better solution will be to allow forward-as-attachement with auto-trunkation of the email. to make the email small enough for spamcop. no edition needed, i think the end of the email is pretty much what they don't need. and multiple send will still be supported.

Comment 2 Xavier Degeneve 2004-12-05 15:42:31 UTC

Hi, I have the same issue with Kmail 1.7.1 (KDE 3.3.1). It was working fine with previous version (which one ?).

This is not usefull for me, I forward jokes and want to remove headers and senders ...

Thanks.

Comment 3 Steve Murray 2004-12-23 08:39:01 UTC

I have this same problem, forwarding document attachments to work colleagues.  I need to add comments to the accompanying text in an e-mail, and still forward the documents that were attached.  Very important for me.

Comment 4 Xavier Degeneve 2004-12-23 10:46:52 UTC

Hello,

I use the following work around. You can drag and drop the attachement from the previous mail to the new one :-p It works fine but ... its only a WA for me.

Regards.

Comment 5 David Faure 2004-12-23 17:23:31 UTC

> I have this same problem, forwarding document attachments to work colleagues.  I need to add comments to the accompanying text in an e-mail, and still forward the documents that were attached.  Very important for me.
This 3.3.1 bug is already fixed. I think you guys are talking about a temporary 3.3.1 bug in a bug report which was about something else...

Comment 6 Xavier Degeneve 2004-12-23 19:27:22 UTC

Hello,

I do not know if it is the good bug.

I was running on Gentoo (Kmail 1.7.1 - Kde 3.3.1) and when I forward an email using Shift-F (Forward inline) all attached parts are discarded.

When you wrote "temporary 3.3.1 bug", what do you mean ? I am running a released version (I expect) on my gentoo box.
# qpkg -f /usr/kde/3.3/bin/kmail -v
kde-base/kdepim-3.3.1

This bug is probably resolved in 3.3.2, I do not know. Sorry for the noise if its true !

Regards

Comment 7 Alain Knaff 2005-02-13 19:35:25 UTC

3.3.92 now has 3 modes of forwarding, but none of them is "inline with headers"

Comment 8 Thomas McGuire 2009-08-23 18:17:02 UTC

With the template system now in KMail, you can configure for inline forward template to include headers.