Mail.app cutting off forwarded emails.

February 22, 2008 11:37 AM

In OSX Mail.app (using an IMAP account), why do messages I forward keep getting cutoff or truncated?

Has anyone had this problem with forwarding in Mail.app? Do I need to reconfigure the IMAP account?

posted by mattbucher to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Who is your IMAP provider? I use IMAP with Gmail and don't have any problems with truncated messages in Mail. Every once in a long while it has issues with attachments, but that's about it...
posted by Kosh at 11:45 AM on February 22

The IMAP provider is Concentric. I've asked other people with IMAP Concentric accounts if they experience this and it's just me. Also, this seems to have developed recently--it was not an issue in the past (although I have not re-configured anything). Could it be the latest Leopard update?
posted by mattbucher at 11:52 AM on February 22

Are you sure you're not forwarding only small parts of it? Are you one of those highlight-scrollers? In Mail, when you highlight part of a message and reply for forward, only the highlighted part is quoted.
posted by cmiller at 12:32 PM on February 22

Yeah, what do you mean by cutoff or truncated? Does the forwarded email literally get cut off right in the middle of a word? When you hit the forward button, do you have any text highlighted (and thus trigger the only-forward-the-selected-text feature of which cmiller speaks)?
posted by delfuego at 1:57 PM on February 22