Do recipients added to a response receive the original attachment?

[Guest]

When one responds to an email that originally includes an attachment, the
recipient(s) of the response do not receive another copy of the original
attachment. However, what if one decides to add additional CC's or BCC's to
the recipient list for the response. Do new recipients automatically receive
the original attachment, or does the respondent have to attach the original
attchment to the response in order for the new recipients to receive a copy
of the response with attachment?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Replies don't hold original attachments; forwards do.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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When one responds to an email that originally includes an attachment, the
recipient(s) of the response do not receive another copy of the original
attachment. However, what if one decides to add additional CC's or BCC's to
the recipient list for the response. Do new recipients automatically
receive
the original attachment, or does the respondent have to attach the original
attchment to the response in order for the new recipients to receive a copy
of the response with attachment?

 

[Guest]

Thanks. I just wanted to make sure one of you clever folks hadn't developed
a tweak or workaround other than laboriously copying and pasting original
attachments for the benefit of new recipients to a response, otherwise the
response would make virtually no sense to the new recipients, despite the
fact that it would make perfect sense to original recipients of the original
message.

So I guess the most logical way to do this is to forward the original
message to new recipients, then respond to the original recipients using the
original message and at the same time add the names of the new recipients to
the response for the original? Does this link the response to the message ID
for the forwarded message as well, or does it merely link the ID of the
common response to the ID of the original but not the ID of the forwarded
copy despite the fact that the message subject is unaltered? What about
situations where the message subject is altered for the forwarded copy but
not for the response? Or situations where the subject for the forwarded copy
is unaltered, but the subject for the combined response is altered?

Or is copying and pasting more efficient? Which method would conserve the
most space if all messages in the 'Sent Items" folder were always saved to
the 'Inbox'?

I apologize for all of the additional questions. I'm sure there are many
others who add additional recipients to a response. For a response without
attachments my questions would be moot. It's the attachments that make the
issue complex. However, after so many verions of Outlook over the years, I
suppose this is the best Microsoft can do. There is not even an option to
auto-link original attachment to a respone with new recipients? When I
started working with mainframes in 1969, I knew this would be a long, uphill
battle. It's been fascinating, though, hasn't it?

Thanks again for the timeliness of your response,

jro
(originally of AuctionWeb)

 

[Earthsmoke]

1) Select Tools

2) Select Options...

3) Within the Preferences tab, select E-mail Options

4) Under the section "When replying to a message", select "Attach original
message" within the drop down box

This will attach the original message (which contains the original
attachment) within the reply . This is referred to as a nested attachment.

Thanks. I just wanted to make sure one of you clever folks hadn't developed
a tweak or workaround other than laboriously copying and pasting original
attachments for the benefit of new recipients to a response, otherwise the
response would make virtually no sense to the new recipients, despite the
fact that it would make perfect sense to original recipients of the original
message.

So I guess the most logical way to do this is to forward the original
message to new recipients, then respond to the original recipients using the
original message and at the same time add the names of the new recipients to
the response for the original? Does this link the response to the message ID
for the forwarded message as well, or does it merely link the ID of the
common response to the ID of the original but not the ID of the forwarded
copy despite the fact that the message subject is unaltered? What about
situations where the message subject is altered for the forwarded copy but
not for the response? Or situations where the subject for the forwarded copy
is unaltered, but the subject for the combined response is altered?

Or is copying and pasting more efficient? Which method would conserve the
most space if all messages in the 'Sent Items" folder were always saved to
the 'Inbox'?

I apologize for all of the additional questions. I'm sure there are many
others who add additional recipients to a response. For a response without
attachments my questions would be moot. It's the attachments that make the
issue complex. However, after so many verions of Outlook over the years, I
suppose this is the best Microsoft can do. There is not even an option to
auto-link original attachment to a respone with new recipients? When I
started working with mainframes in 1969, I knew this would be a long, uphill
battle. It's been fascinating, though, hasn't it?

Thanks again for the timeliness of your response,

jro
(originally of AuctionWeb)

Replies don't hold original attachments; forwards do.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

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When one responds to an email that originally includes an attachment, the
recipient(s) of the response do not receive another copy of the original
attachment. However, what if one decides to add additional CC's or BCC's to
the recipient list for the response. Do new recipients automatically
receive
the original attachment, or does the respondent have to attach the original
attchment to the response in order for the new recipients to receive a copy
of the response with attachment?