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Forwarding Emails corruption on Thunderbird

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hi from New Zealand. When clicking on the 'Forward' option in a Thunderbird received email, a large collection of 'technical data' appears, before the message, which I have to delete before sending. See example pasted below. Please let me know how can to eliminate this!

take good care, David Ingram email: [email]@actrix.co.nz



Forwarded Message --------

From: 04 2020 <> X-Account-Key: account1 X-UIDL: UID13975-1418163074 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Return-Path: <[email]@actrix.co.nz> X-Original-To: [email].auckland@actrix.co.nz Delivered-To: [email].auckland@actrix.co.nz Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by backend4.actrix.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A181DB4044; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:07:26 +1300 (NZDT) X-Virus-Scanned: by Actrix CyberScan Received: from starscream.actrix.co.nz ([192.168.30.22]) by localhost (backend4.actrix.co.nz [192.168.30.49]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DhUPVVSD7j5a; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:07:24 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (unknown [114.23.202.139]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by starscream.actrix.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 57B8C12981; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:07:23 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: Fwd: Poems for Christmas - time for some shopping! References: <94834de319226d7f20fec38cd2e0ef9d@smtp17.ymlpsvr.com> From: Stock, Kristin <[email]@actrix.co.nz> X-Forwarded-Message-Id: <94834de319226d7f20fec38cd2e0ef9d@smtp17.ymlpsvr.com> Message-ID: <f21f7a4c-42af-3853-6aa7-2ed68a51be9c@actrix.co.nz> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:07:24 +1300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: In-Reply-To: <94834de319226d7f20fec38cd2e0ef9d@smtp17.ymlpsvr.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------F34217CEDFD52A0015EAA2A1" Content-Language: en-US



Forwarded Message --------

Subject: Poems for Christmas - time for some shopping! Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:30:16 +0100 From: [email]@btinternet.com <[email]@btinternet.com> To: [email]@actrix.co.nz

hi from New Zealand. When clicking on the 'Forward' option in a Thunderbird received email, a large collection of 'technical data' appears, before the message, which I have to delete before sending. See example pasted below. Please let me know how can to eliminate this! take good care, David Ingram email: [email]@actrix.co.nz -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: 04 2020 <> X-Account-Key: account1 X-UIDL: UID13975-1418163074 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Return-Path: <[email]@actrix.co.nz> X-Original-To: [email].auckland@actrix.co.nz Delivered-To: [email].auckland@actrix.co.nz Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by backend4.actrix.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A181DB4044; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:07:26 +1300 (NZDT) X-Virus-Scanned: by Actrix CyberScan Received: from starscream.actrix.co.nz ([192.168.30.22]) by localhost (backend4.actrix.co.nz [192.168.30.49]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DhUPVVSD7j5a; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:07:24 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (unknown [114.23.202.139]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by starscream.actrix.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 57B8C12981; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:07:23 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: Fwd: Poems for Christmas - time for some shopping! References: <94834de319226d7f20fec38cd2e0ef9d@smtp17.ymlpsvr.com> From: Stock, Kristin <[email]@actrix.co.nz> X-Forwarded-Message-Id: <94834de319226d7f20fec38cd2e0ef9d@smtp17.ymlpsvr.com> Message-ID: <f21f7a4c-42af-3853-6aa7-2ed68a51be9c@actrix.co.nz> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:07:24 +1300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: In-Reply-To: <94834de319226d7f20fec38cd2e0ef9d@smtp17.ymlpsvr.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------F34217CEDFD52A0015EAA2A1" Content-Language: en-US -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Poems for Christmas - time for some shopping! Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:30:16 +0100 From: [email]@btinternet.com <[email]@btinternet.com> To: [email]@actrix.co.nz

Modified by Andrew

Chosen solution

Set View/Headers to Normal; press Alt if the Menu Bar with View is hidden.

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Chosen Solution

Set View/Headers to Normal; press Alt if the Menu Bar with View is hidden.

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Thank you sf howes, much appreciated, take good care, David

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Done - Issue resolved Thanks. so simple yet annoying for end user