The Mutt E-Mail Client : Getting Started : Forwarding and Bouncing Mail
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## 2.5. Forwarding and Bouncing Mail

Bouncing and forwarding let you send an existing message to recipients that you specify. Bouncing a message uses the sendmail command to send a copy to alternative addresses as if they were the message's original recipients. Forwarding a message, on the other hand, allows you to modify the message before it is resent (for example, by adding your own comments).

The following keys are bound by default:

> `

>     f       forward         forward message
>     b       bounce          bounce (remail) message

> `

Forwarding can be done by including the original message in the new message's body (surrounded by indicating lines) or including it as a MIME attachment, depending on the value of the $mime_forward variable. Decoding of attachments, like in the pager, can be controlled by the $forward_decode and $mime_forward_decode variables, respectively. The desired forwarding format may depend on the content, therefore $mime_forward is a quadoption which, for example, can be set to ``ask-no''.

The inclusion of headers is controlled by the current setting of the $weed variable, unless mime_forward is set.

Editing the message to forward follows the same procedure as sending or replying to a message does.

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