Forwarding removes address

[ScottDF]

If I forward an email, and the original From: sender is in my Contacts, the
forwarded email does not have the email address, only the 'pretty name'.

How can I tell Outlook 2003 to include the email address?

Scott

 

[Brian Tillman]

If I forward an email, and the original From: sender is in my
Contacts, the forwarded email does not have the email address, only
the 'pretty name'.

How can I tell Outlook 2003 to include the email address?

Double-click the "pretty name" and make it what you want.

 

[ScottDF]

Double-click the "pretty name" and make it what you want.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. If I click Forward, the 'pretty name' is in the
body of the email as plain text, but the email address has not been brought
along. I would need to open the original email, double click the email
address to open the dialog box, copy the email address from there and paste
it into the Forwarded email. Might be just me, but that seems ridiculous
and unlike other email clients.

I want the email address to appear in the body of the forwarded email.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Outlook uses the display name in the body so it's not so messy. If you need
the address so others can reply, forward as attachment instead of inline.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. If I click Forward, the 'pretty name' is in the
body of the email as plain text, but the email address has not been brought
along. I would need to open the original email, double click the email
address to open the dialog box, copy the email address from there and paste
it into the Forwarded email. Might be just me, but that seems ridiculous
and unlike other email clients.

I want the email address to appear in the body of the forwarded email.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/





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[ScottDF]

Outlook uses the display name in the body so it's not so messy. If you
need the address so others can reply, forward as attachment instead of
inline.

That is true for formatted emails. For plain text emails, the email
address is converted.

While forwarding as an attachment is possible, it greatly reduces the
'flow' of a conversation. More importantly for our purposes, we want to
extract that email address programmatically. If it's not there, it's hard
to extract.