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forwarding email items

May 23, 2012 5:11PM PDT

Sometimes I get interesting emails from friends that I would like to pass on to others - however, often these emails have many other email addresses of participants in the in the "to" heading. I feel it is better to delete all these addesses when forwarding the item so only my email is shown as the "forwarder" - please can someone tell me a simple way to do this - I am definitely a compumoron, so it has to be simple!!

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Re: forward
May 23, 2012 5:21PM PDT

Generally, not only the text of forwarded e-mail is included in the body of the new e-mail, but also the header data (to, cc, date, subject). Just delete that, like you delete any info in any mail you send.
Couldn't be simpler then.

However, there are email programs that include the whole old email as an attachment when forwarding it, instead of putting header and contents in the body of the new mail. If that's the case with your email program, you must use another email program.

Kees

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Forwarding
May 25, 2012 5:00PM PDT

Many thanks Kees - will do this.