Open attachment that contains forwarded email (MIME type message/rfc822)

Question

When I forward an email with Mutt from my laptop, Mutt adds the forwarded email as an attachment with MIME type "message/rfc822".


Unfortunately, Android's stock email client "com.android.email" version 8.1.0 displays the received email like this:


Email app screenshot saying "Couldn't download. Touch to retry"


Two things are wrong with that:



  • It doesn't show the forwarded email's content.

  • It doesn't show the content of the non-forwarded email, the body of the email I wrote in Mutt.


The email displays properly when using K-9 Mail.


Is there a way to make the email app show the email and its attachment?



I'm on a Samsung Galaxy J5 running LineageOS.


— Matthias Braun | Sources

Answer

Gmail cannot support this as I understand from FairEmail discussion on XDA (outlook mail client has related limitations).


There is a workaround, in case one is willing to have the forwarded email as text and not attachment.


OP had set mime_forward because they wanted to forward attachments per default
. If this is unset as per mutt documentation (to ask-no or ask-yes), the forwarded email is just text (not a message/rfc822) and the stock email app shows it fine as confirmed by them.


— beeshyams | Sources

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