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Forwarding Messages

VM has two commands to forward messages: z (vm-forward-message) and @ (vm-send-digest).

Typing z puts you into a `*mail*' buffer just like m, except the current message appears as the body of the message in the `*mail*' buffer. The forwarded message is surrounded by RFC 934 complaint message delimiters. If the variable vm-rfc934-forwarding is non-nil "^-" to "- -" character stuffing is done to the forwarded message (this is the default). This behavior is required if the recipient of the forwarded message wants to use a RFC 934 standard bursting agent to access the message. If the variable vm-forwarding-subject-format is non-nil it should specify the format of the Subject header of the forwarded message. This subject will be used as the contents of the Subject header automatically inserted into the `*mail*' buffer. A nil value causes the Subject header to be left blank. The forwarded message is flagged "forwarded". The command @ (vm-send-digest) works like z except that a digest of all the messages in the current folder is made and inserted into the `*mail*' buffer. Also, vm-send-digest can be applied to marked messages. See section Message Marks. When applied to marked messages, vm-send-digest will only bundle marked messages, as opposed to the usual bundling of all messages in the current folder. If you give vm-send-digest a prefix argument, VM will insert a list of preamble lines at the beginning of the digest, one line per digestified message. The variable vm-digest-preamble-format determines the format of the preamble lines. If the value of vm-digest-center-preamble is non-nil, the preamble lines will be centered.


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