There should be an easy way to do this with out all this highlight/cut and paste business…
I was asked to do something that was already done and reported in an e-mail to the first person. The second person (supervisor) asked me why I did not do it.
I wanted to attach the the e-mail I sent to the first person to my reply to the supervisor. You’d think that that there’d be a simple attach button like the one for attach file. The forward button doesn’t seem to cut it, because I wanted keep the supervisors original message as normally the case in replies. Thanks.
In my email client (Thunderbird) under Tools>Options>Composition you can choose between forwarding an email inline or as attachment. I assume that other email clients have similar options.
Ah. OK. You can use any mail client with both Yahoo and Gmail.
Pick your favorite client, be it Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, your phone/tablet etc. Many of these clients will do what you want, which is to drag an intact e-mail stream as an attachment into another. A good bet if you want to make absolutely sure it will work is to use the mail client the person on the other end is using. That will ensure they can open the attachment.
What you will be doing is setting up something called the IMAP settings for your mail service in the mail client. When you set this up, make sure that if the client has a setting for it to “leave mail on server”. Then you will simply be viewing and sending mail on the client while the mail is still in the cloud.
Yahoo has some caveats, in that this is technically only supposed to work for mobile devices. The reason is Yahoo is still a bit old school about their freemium models, they want you to use the web client to see the ads, so they make it a bit harder. Technically, you’re not supposed to be able to do this without paying for the premium Yahoo Plus mail account, such is their freemium model.
However, you may be able to get it to work regardless. Apple Mail is known to work directly, but you may need to jump some hoops for Outlook and Thunderbird.
I’m forgetting my English… Yes, that is what I want. I want to attach another e-mail to my “reply” or other original e-mail.
Does Thunderbird allow you to use Web based mail. I want to keep my mail in the clouds.
G-mail? I have an account. Could you please tell me the steps I must do to forward an e-mail as an attachment. Thanks.[/quote]
Yes, you can tell Thunderbird to leave mail on the server under Tools>Account Settings>Server Settings.
It doesn’t seem to be possible in G-Mail directly, but one way of doing it (not very elegantly though) would be to print the original email (there is a little printer icon in the upper right corner of the message) using a PDF printer (like pdfcreator). The you just attach the pdf to your message.
This is a good suggestion from a technical standpoint because it removes the dependency that the other end can view the attachment. Pretty much any computer or smartphone can display PDF. From an elegance standpoint maybe not as much and if the other person is highly suspicious, has the disadvantage of potentially looking doctored.