[Dovecot] OT: Sieve + Forward as Attachment

[Phil Howard]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:45, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
> On 2010-07-06 7:25 AM, Jerry wrote:
>> I know that this is technically not a Dovecot problem; however, I was
>> wondering if anyone knew if 'sieve' had been updated with the ability
>> to 'forward as attachment' a received document. I believe it has the
>> ability to forward a document; however, I need the ability to forward
>> it as an attachment if possible.
>
> I think you really mean can it do an Inline forward...
>
> *Documents* are not forwarded, *messages* are forwarded. If a message
> has an attachment, and is forwarded Inline, the attachments appear as
> directly attached to the forwarded message, otherwise the entire message
> is shown as an attachment, and you only see the attached document(s) in
> the attachment pane when you open the attached message.
>
> Dang, that was hard to word correctly, and it can still be improved a lot...

Seems like what he wants to do is effectively creating a new message
which has as an attached document the triggering message.