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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Default for "forward" in Kmail
From:       "Vedran Ljubovic" <vljubovic () smartnet ! ba>
Date:       2003-11-02 16:11:01
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On Tuesday 21 October 2003 19:20, Jorge Adriano Aires wrote:
> Hello,
> The default forward action in Kmail used to be "Forward Inline", it changed
> to "Forward as Attachment" in kde 3.1 if I'm not mistaken. By default I
> mean the one you get by clicking the  forward button.
>
> IMO "Forward as Attachment" as default promotes bad style. I'm sure many of
> you had the pleasure of recieving mails with an attachment with an
> attachment with an attachment with an attachment with an attachment with an
> attachment (...). You get the picture. I'd say that for most situations
> "forward inline" is the appropriate one, so it should be default.
>
> There is a whishlist report for this with 180 votes:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53063
>
> I really think this kind of report should have a short period of life -
> it's about standards and users get used to whatever choice is made. If it
> makes sense it should be discussed and decided, and either "Fixed" or maked
> as "Won't Fix". This was reported in January this year...

I was hoping that someone more qualified than me will respond, but it 
obviously isn't happening.

KMail *does not* forward e-mail messages as attachments! It forwards them in a 
standard, RFC-compliant way and it forwards them inline. If you look at the 
source of a forwarded message, you'll clearly see in its header a line that 
says

        Content-Disposition: inline

If certain broken, non-compliant mail readers (*cough* Outlook *cough*) 
disregard this instruction and display a message as an attachment - it's 
their fault. If you want to see how a forwarded message should properly be 
displayed, forward any message to yourself and open it in KMail.

You should educate your friends who still use obsolete mail clients that 
whatever they see is a bug and that they should report to software authors. 
And for those who can't or do not want to upgrade (like your boss :) is it to 
hard to drag your mouse 50 pixels below when forwarding??? Or do we bow once 
again before certain ignorant monopoly and accept their "standards"?

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