email resend (send again)

[brightncheerful]

Whenever i want to amend something in an email that I've sent already, I resend (send again) and put the date of the first email above the content in the first message.

For example:

First email (date 10 April 2018)
Hello, what's your name, please send me £1M and I'll tell you mine.

Resend (date 11 April 2018)

My apologies. Please delete 'send me '£1M' and substitute 'please reply'

10 April 2018
Hello, what's your name, please send me £1M and I'll tell you mine.

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My question concerns the resend. Do i need to put the date of the content from the first email in the resend or can I simply resend?

[swill453]

My question concerns the resend. Do i need to put the date of the content from the first email in the resend or can I simply resend?

If it's your method, you can do what you like surely.

If you're actually asking if the original date is somehow automatically "stamped" on the resend then I don't think it is.

Personally I wouldn't do it that way. I'd send it as a "reply" to the original email, making sure the addressee is correct (gmail and thunderbird seem to do this correctly). That way the original date and other mail headers remain. Then you can say what you like in the body ("With respect to the email below, I really meant £2million.")

Scott.

[brightncheerful]

Thank you.

I've just experimented using reply. As you say the original date and other headers remain. all I need do now is add the new content (which now doesn't have to be at the top of the email) and remember to change the address of the recipient. (I'm using Mail and my own email address including suffix.)

[newlyretired]

I've just experimented using reply. As you say the original date and other headers remain. all I need do now is add the new content (which now doesn't have to be at the top of the email) and remember to change the address of the recipient. (I'm using Mail and my own email address including suffix.)

"Reply All" will probably do what you want

newlyretired

[johnhemming]

Emails are strings of text. There is a normally hidden part which is called the headers (or RFC 822 headers). Any meta data (dates of the email etc) is stored in those headers. You can normally see them some way using a mail client looking at "properties" or "headers".

When you forward or reply to an email it creates a new set of headers and doesn't necessarily carry forward any of the information in the headers that it does not want to refer to (it will have the to and from headers for example where relevant).


Here is an example of the headers I had in an email sent to me by the TLF server:

From - Thu Apr 12 16:46:43 2018
X-Account-Key: account1
X-UIDL: AAAOfVIAAAQ37WlfbocLW+UACRw2MSjE
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:
Received: from jhtserver.jhtdomain.local ([81.138.48.97]) by eclipse1.john.hemming.name with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675);
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:38:50 +0100
Received: from outmx-123.london.gridhost.co.uk ([188.65.116.98])
by jhtserver.jhtdomain.local
with XWall v3.52 ;
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:38:49 +0100
Received: from lin-10-170-0-112.gridhost.co.uk (unknown [91.208.99.2])
(Authenticated sender: name@lemonfool.co.uk)
by outmx-123.london.gridhost.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 716EA1324DC7
for <john@hemming.email>; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:38:49 +0100 (BST)
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?VG9waWMgcmVwbHkgbm90aWZpY2F0aW9uIC0gIkxlYXJuaW5nIGFib3V0IEdp?=
=?UTF-8?B?bHRzIg==?=
To: =?UTF-8?B?am9obmhlbW1pbmc=?= <john@hemming.email>
From: "=?UTF-8?B?TGVtb24gQWRtaW4=?=" <[deleted]>
Reply-To: "=?UTF-8?B?TGVtb24gQWRtaW4=?=" <name@lemonfool.co.uk>
Sender: <name@lemonfool.co.uk>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <9dc3d15fed9902e89f0437ef47b0988f@www.lemonfool.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:38:48 +0100
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: phpBB3
X-MimeOLE: phpBB3
X-phpBB-Origin: phpbb://www.lemonfool.co.uk
Received-SPF: pass (domain of name@lemonfool.co.uk designates 188.65.116.98 as permitted sender)
X-XWall-Bayes: 28
X-XWall-Heuristic: 1
Return-Path: name@lemonfool.co.uk
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Apr 2018 15:38:50.0292 (UTC) FILETIME=[5AA8AF40:01D3D274]

Hello johnhemming,

Moderator Message:
I've edited this post to remove an email address. It's impolite to post someone's email address publicly. Mel

[torata]

Moderator Message:
I've edited this post to remove an email address. It's impolite to post someone's email address publicly. Mel

It looks to me that there may be other email addresses in there:

To: =?UTF-8?B?am9obmhlbW1pbmc=?= <john AT hemming.email>
From: "=?UTF-8?B?TGVtb24gQWRtaW4=?="[deleted]>

These messages are open to the public to read

Torata

(feel free to delete this message, Mel)