<Contents take from bugsplat bug 333535. This is my first few attempts at classifying the category and assignment. Pls correct if I'm wrong.) Allow "Linked Msg Type" to be Changed in Compose Msg window After user has begun a "linked msg. type" of msg. (I'm making up this term to mean Reply, Reply All, Forward As Attachment, Forward Quoted, Forward Inline--everything except New Msg), allow the "linked msg. type" to be changed. For example, I start it as a Forward (As Attachment, the default) and after getting a long address list just right, realize I should have done Forward Inline so that I can intersperse my comments in the original msg. I seem to do this frequently, and have workarounds to get the result I want w/o redoing any work--your "typical" home/business user won't figure out the workarounds and it would just be convenient to be able to select a new "linked msg. type", maybe specifying an option re how to handle the address list (keep as is, replace w/address list for new "linked msg. type", or merge two address lists together). User could be left to handle the message body--any text they've already entered would be left as is (moved to top of msg. if it had been interspersed w/original & they now wanted orig. to be attachment).

I think this would be pretty hard, bordering on impossible. Reassigning to Jean-Francois, who's working on composition, just in case, but I bet we'll end up LATERing this, which would be ok with me.

qa contact to jeffu

A possible way of doing this is to add a "Import or Quote Original Message" message. This would be a one way translation for those situations when the user initially selected "Forward as attachment". Just a thought.

later (probably never)

verified later.

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