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Forwarding E-mail

by Bettee Nov 25, 2004 2:40AM PST

When I had win98 i was able to forward e-mails without sending the former senders name, e-mail addy, etc. Now that i have winXP Pro,ie6.0,custom made computer,using yahoo as my default e-mail addy,...i am unable to forward anything without all the content from the previous sender. I have checked the yahoo settings, etc. and they seem to be okay. I think it has to be in my computer settings somewhere. Can you help me with this problem? PLEASE???
Frustrated and helpless,
Bettee

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Re: Forwarding E-mail
by Gakada Nov 25, 2004 2:58AM PST

Forwarding is supposed to forward an email to another address ... with the FROM line is the original sender.

Maybe you are talking about replying?
If you are using Yahoo (web mail)...By replying you can exclude the original email...

in Yahoo its on mail option, personalization, general pref, message actions, click 'Don't include original message when replying'.

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Re: Forwarding E-mail
by MarkFlax Former Forum moderator Nov 25, 2004 4:04AM PST

Or try this,

Say you want to forward an email to another person, say someone sent you a joke or something like that, and you want to forward it on to other friends, but do "not" want to send on the previous person's email address, etc.

Then just open up a new message, address it to the person you want, then copy the contents of the message you received into the blank email message you have just created.

However I am not sure how wel this would work if the original email had pictures in it. you may want to test this out on yourself. Use this method to send yourself an email and see what you get. back.

Mark.

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Re: Forwarding E-mail
by roddy32 Nov 25, 2004 5:36AM PST

Here is another way. Both Outlook Express and Yahoo, you can click forward on the e-mail. All the previous addresses show up in the body of the forwarded message ABOVE whatever it is that you are forwarding. Using your mouse, just highlight all the forwarded addresses from the message body that are above the joke and hit the delete button. The joke or whatever you are forwarding, as long as you didn't highlight that too will be the only thing left. Then you just put whoever you are sending it to in the "to" box and you have a clean e-mail to forward. It takes less time than it sounds like.

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Re: Forwarding E-mail
by Shepbob Nov 25, 2004 9:19AM PST

If you are going to forward e-mail to more than one person, don't put their addresses in the TO: box but put them in the BCC: box. This method will eliminate everyone seeing everyone elses address. In Yahoo you may have to put one email address in the TO: box but you don't need to in outlook express

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Re: Forwarding E-mail
by roddy32 Nov 25, 2004 9:27AM PST

That's what I do too, I was trying to teach one thing at a time LOL. It goes out as "undisclosed recipient" that way.

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