How do I forward an email as a reply in Apple Mail?

elkopi wrote:

A hypothetical situation:

A person A sends me an email saying: 'once you receive an email from person B, forward it to me'.

Now I receive an email from person B and want to forward it to person A as a reply to an above message.

How do I do that please?

Open the e-mail from B and reply. If you actually want to compose a reply, you can do so. If you want to send your reply, you can do that. Just make sure to reopen your sent message for the next step.

Select however much if your reply that you want to forward. I assume you want all of the quotes text that you replied to. Copy to the clipboard.

Select the last message from A and reply. Add your reply. Find a suitable place to inset your forwarded reply and paste. You may need to use the quote and indent controls to adjust the pasted text.

Send.

As I explained, once you receive the email from person B, you select that email, choose "Forward", and fill in the email address of person A into the "To:" field. You can add text before you send if you like. Person A will receive the copy of the email from person B.

Correct. If that's the goal, the only way I know of you could do that is save the email of person B in rtf format to your Desktop or somewhere convenient. Reply to person A and add the copy of the email you created as an attachment.

elkopi wrote:

If you forward a message this way, say it had some attachments, will they be forwarded too?

This is a manual process. You will have to re-add any attachment in the appropriate places.

Attachments are tricky. dialabrain's solution will work, technically. The problem with e-mail is that one has to think of the cognitive and technological limits of the recipient. One also has to be aware of differences in power relationships. What I mean by this is that you may be e-mailing someone who only has a PC, and isn't very savvy. They may not be able to do anything with an attached e-mail message. They many only understand images and word documents. Their server may automatically block zip files. But they could also be a powerful person, or someone who doesn't have power, but has a gatekeeper role. You may have to carefully spoon feed them the data in whatever form they will accept.

Do you mean other than selecting the email, choosing "Forward" and entering the email address of the person you are replying to?

Hmmm. I'm not sure what the difference is other than hitting "Reply" vs "Forward" since the same recipient will get the email attached. Perhaps someone else will understand.

Welcome.

Sounds easier just to make a copy and attach it. But that's me.