Editing e-mail content

[flacousa]

I'm new to the Android world and don't know if this is an Android question or a Nexus 7

When forwarding e-mail I like to erase the senders information, in the PC and the iOS world is as easy as tabbing on the arrow with the [x] but so far I haven't been able to do it in my Nexus 7, is there a way to do that?

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[flacousa]

Answering my own question: after doing a Google search I found this is an issue with gmail that people has been complaining since at least 2009

It sucks since some of us like to strip the senders address before forwarding.

Has anyone found a workaround?

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[zedorda]

Even if you clear all the sender info you are unable to effect the meta-data which recorders the full trace of the email. So even tho you think your sending an email without that info it is still there and can only be avoided by composing a new email.

If you were able to effect the meta-data there are laws now that require the integrity of meta-data to be secure and alteration falls under signal tampering and is illegal.

 

[dotism]

While true, zedorda, most users don't go digging into message headers. I do, you do, but let's pretend flacousa's recipients don't for a moment

I'm guessing OP just wants the garbage at the top of a forwarded message quickly removed.

Using SwiftKey X I discovered that if you switch a forwarded message in GMail to 'Respond Inline' mode, you can easily double tap the stuff at the top to get rid of it. (SwiftKey seems to intelligently select the sender info and then one can hit backspace or 'delete' from the menu--with a tiny bit of adjustment depending on the message.)

Your mileage may vary, but in researching your question I found this a handy trick.

 

[dotism]

I am likely misunderstanding the problem... I was just happy with my little discovery

 

[zedorda]

@dotism Your probably right I was going in a different direction with my reply, Thanks.

 

[dotism]

zedorda: I'm still not convinced. Does iOS and/or Windows offer something to strip SMTP headers from forwarded emails, before they were forwarded, however silly that seems?

That seems like a feature worth debunking, IMHO.

 

[zedorda]

Sorry I don't mess with email much other than reading it sometimes.

 

[dotism]

No, I'm sorry. I was just hoping for a little mail protocol madness within this thread.

Plus, I am always game for finding faultiness in user-facing features that actually do nothing to reality. It reminds me of the 'Bounce' feature in Mail.app which shipped in the first versions of OS X. It made users feel great about pretending to be vacant behind an address while simply sending header data back to the spammer confirming residence.

 

[flacousa]

@zedorda I don't care if the metadata stays embedded as long as the forward e-mail looks cleaner to the forwarding recipient.

Sometimes I forward an email that has been forwarded several times before and I just want to shorten the endless list of emails that show at the top.

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