In Outlook Express, how to control display while forwarding?

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Anthony Buckland

In Outlook Express, I control the display of messages I'm
reading so that pictures won't be displayed until I'm
convinced it's a good idea to do so (then I View in HTML).
But when I'm forwarding a message, I don't see a way
I can exercise the same control, i.e. the pictures are
always displayed while I'm in the Forward window.
Am I missing something? Thanks.
 
Anthony Buckland said:
In Outlook Express, I control the display of messages I'm
reading so that pictures won't be displayed until I'm
convinced it's a good idea to do so (then I View in HTML).
But when I'm forwarding a message, I don't see a way
I can exercise the same control, i.e. the pictures are
always displayed while I'm in the Forward window.
Am I missing something? Thanks.
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So why are you forwarding anything that you yourself are unwilling to
see?

Forward as an attachment, not inline.
 
VanguardLH said:
So why are you forwarding anything that you yourself are unwilling to see?

Forward as an attachment, not inline.
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Good question, but has an answer.
I'm temporarily getting some volume of mail
that should have gone to another addressee.
I don't have reason to suspect it, but want to
forward it as is for the other addressee to decide
about. They know their correspondents better
than I do.

Thanks for the tip, which I hadn't noticed as a
possibility before.
 
Anthony Buckland said:
Good question, but has an answer.
I'm temporarily getting some volume of mail
that should have gone to another addressee.
I don't have reason to suspect it, but want to
forward it as is for the other addressee to decide
about. They know their correspondents better
than I do.

Thanks for the tip, which I hadn't noticed as a
possibility before.
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Forwarding inline deletes the headers for the original e-mail which
could be important to the recipient. Forwarding as an attachment
gives the recipient a FULL copy of the original message, including the
headers.
 
I don't know if this will help your situation, but you can do Alt-Enter on a
message in the list of message in OE (not a displayed message) then click on
the details tab then click on the Message Source button. Then you can do a
Ctrl-A to select everything and then copy the message. Then if you paste
that in a message body then all the headers will be there at least. That
might be too inconvenient for your non-technical friends or colleagues but
that is how I copy messages to report to my ISP and I never open the
message.
 
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