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blueboxer
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Capturee to forward Mar 1, 2016 19:00:51 GMT -5

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Post by blueboxer on Mar 1, 2016 19:00:51 GMT -5

I get lots of the old fart equivalent of cat videos in all sorts of formats, including many exclusive to Apple and some of the less usual MS ones like Powerpoint. My mail client is Thunderbird and it files everything that comes in, in .eml files.

This is a problem because .eml files don't want to be forwarded. I use Windows7. And when I am composing an outgoing email (a forward, reply, etc.) editing tools such as select all, copy, paste, are not available. I need to take a screenshot of what I want in the incoming file, try to save it outside of Thunderbird, but then have no way of putting it in the outgoing message - on occasion I can copy it through the clipboard to the desktop, then paste from there, but other times it wont.

I have Fireshot and Lightshot and Awesome Screenshot and Pocket and PrntScn, I can paste sometimes into Word or Wordpad or Notepad or EditPad Light or DocPad or other editors, but especially with an embedded slide show or Powerpoint that runs down off the bottom of my screen I can't find a way to capture what I need or transfer it as an embedment into my outgoing forward. (I know this is not too clear, but I'm trying).

These things are coming into my computer and displaying on my incoming screen, and often they are forwards, so someone else originally found out how to embed them. Why can't I?

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Capturee to forward Mar 5, 2016 8:01:40 GMT -5

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Post by drcard on Mar 5, 2016 8:01:40 GMT -5

Hi blueboxer,

Not sure if what you want to do is to forward the complete email (text and graphic) or you want to forward the graphic only and not the text part. I'll give answers for both.

To forward the entire email with embedded graphic, then select the Forward as an attachment setting.

To forward only the graphic then you must first save the graphic to use in your email. This is called extracting an embedded graphic.

Extracting an embedded graphic:

I don't use Thunderbird, but since Thunderbird embeds videos and other graphics as multipart/related MIME format in the eml files that it saves; the way to do this should be the same way you do it with other email clients that use that format. The multipart/related MIME format means that Thunderbird (and other email clients) takes the text file (what you typed in the message) and the graphic file (photo or video) and combines and saves them as one file. To extract the graphic file requires that you uncombine the files and the best program to do this is Thunderbird itself. How?

Open the email with the embedded graphic in Thunderbird.

Change the View settings to Plain Text. In Thunderbird this should be View>Show as/Message body as>Plain Text (the exact wording may change among different versions, but you are looking for the setting to display the message in Plain text).

Having Thunderbird display the message in plain text causes the embedded graphics to be displayed as attachments (uncombined). Once displayed as attachments you can now save the attached graphic as a separate file that you can attach and embed into email that you send.

Hope this is what you wanted to know. If not then let me know.

HTH, Dana:)) 👨‍🔬

blueboxer Full Member Posts: 108	Capturee to forward Mar 5, 2016 21:20:35 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by blueboxer on Mar 5, 2016 21:20:35 GMT -5 Won't have time to try this for a day or two, but I will get at it as soon as I can and let you know how it works out. Meanwhile, many thanks!
	What you don't know won't hurt you as much as what you do know that ain't so.

blueboxer Full Member Posts: 108	Capturee to forward Apr 1, 2016 20:49:56 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by blueboxer on Apr 1, 2016 20:49:56 GMT -5 Whoops! Still haven't had a chance to try your recommendation, but will work on it soon as I can. But I will try it and will report back. Unfortunately, in this case, patience helps.
	What you don't know won't hurt you as much as what you do know that ain't so.

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Post by drcard on Mar 5, 2016 8:01:40 GMT -5

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Post by blueboxer on Apr 1, 2016 20:49:56 GMT -5