Apple Mail won't forward message content

If you open the message you sent in the Sent maibox, does it still have the content of the message you were forwarding? If so, then this is something happening after it leaves your Mac, and before it passes through all the servers, and possibly SPAM filters to the recipient.

More info, please.

Ernie

I would guess then that either you have composed the Forward in Rich Text Format, or the email being forwarded is RTF? In this case the RTF is converting to HTML. To check this, open your message in the Sent mailbox, click on View in the menubar, place your cursor on Message and choose Raw Source.

Outlook neither sends nor handles RTF well.

Ernie

I've had the same problem, though inconsistently. I do think it is related to RTF though, because when I change to plain text and forward to myself, it forwards fine when I check my outlook account on a dweebie dell. We're on an exchange server of course and I get my mail via mail.app on my mac at work but everyone else is on pcs.

The other odd thing is when I first looked at the original sent message, it was intact (looking at it on my mac). I forwarded it to myself and looked on the pc and forwarded piece was gone (text I added was fine). Then I went back to my sent folder and looked at what I sent originally, and the original text was gone there as well. So it seems like the exchange server stripped it out of my sent version as well, which seems very heavy-handed even for Microsoft.

So, my workaround is to turn off RTF -- not that hard to turn it on if I need to add some color or something but mostly text is text.

Connie

My version of this problem is that when I reply for forward a message, some emails will include the previous message and some won't. For example, most times I forward it will include the entire message. But when I forward an email from a few specific senders it will not include the message.

Weird.

We have two macs (both iMacs) having the same issue. They've been exhibiting this problem since 10.5.7. The strange thing is it's email message specific. In other words, certain emails will not forward, but other emails from the same person will. Very strange indeed. Anyone been able to figure this out? I'm afraid we're going to start seeing it on more macs.

Thanks!

Rob
p.s. manually copying and pasting into a new message will work, strangely enough.

i have same problem with mail on SL. when forwarding a message to outlook recipients, they get my own writting, but the text of the original mail appears as an html attachement rather than in the body of the mail. did anyone find a solution to this problem?

p

I am having the same problem, ever since I updated the OS two weeks ago. Is this a known bug?

Mark