[Alpine-info] Question about message composition - attaching files

[Bret Busby via Alpine-info]

On 27/5/25 22:57, Bret Busby via Alpine-info wrote:

> On 27/5/25 22:42, Bret Busby via Alpine-info wrote:

>> On 27/5/25 22:27, Chime Hart wrote:

>>> Hi Bret: Well, you can import the text of a message with control+r 

>>> but as far

>>> as actually including a file, just go down to the field which says 

>>> "attchmnt"

>>> type the full path of your file to include. I wish that would 

>>> tab-complete.

>>> Hope that is what you are looking for.

>>> Chime

>>>

>> Hello.

>>

>> I do not know whether it will get through,but I have attached a 

>> screenshot that shows the options that I have available in message 

>> composition, and, those options do not show what you mentioned.

>>

>> Also, I do not know who administers this list, but, in Thunderbird, 

>> which I am using to compose and send this message, for some mailing 

>> lists, I have the options "Reply to sender" and "Reply to List", but, 

>> on this list, I have only "Reply to sender" and "Reply to all", which 

>> causes two copies of a reply to be sent; one to the list, and, one to 

>> the sender of the message to which I am replying. Is it possible on 

>> this list, to get the "Reply to all", replaced with "Reply to list"?

>>

>> Thank you in anticipation.

>>

>> ..

>> Bret Busby

>> Armadale

>> West Australia

>> (UTC+0800)

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> 

> 

> 

> Okay.

> 

> I have found two things.

> 

> The first, is that the default is "Reply to list"; the above message had 

> "Reply to All" as the option, instead, as the person to whose message, I 

> was responding, had replied to both me and the list, causing the "Reply 

> to all" to replace the "Reply to List" option.

> 

> The second thing, is that the screen shot that I posted to the list, 

> shows the <CTRL><j> as I remember it, to attach a file.

> 

> But, what I see in the message that I am composing, to which, I want to 

> attach two files, is different.

> 

> In this message, I have posted a screenshot of the message that I have 

> been composing, to show what I mean, that is the problem, that led me to 

> believe that attachments could no longer be attached to messages being 

> composed. The message that I am composing, (in which I have inserted 

> many blank lines, to hide the body content), is a reply to a message 

> received.

> 

> So, the question remains - how do I attach files to that message?

> 


Okay - I figured it out after all of that - the cursor needs to be in 
the Attachment field of the header, then, <CTRL><j> appears as the 
option to attach a file (and not to justify).

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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