Forward Email with Multiple Threads – How to Include Pictures in Mail

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I have an email thread I would like to forward. The email thread has a bunch of replies each with pictures.

I can forward and select "include original attachments", but that only includes the images on the most recent reply. Every previous attachment still looks like <PastedGraphic-14.png>. Is there anyway to forward an email including all the actual images?

Best Answer

Mail does not have the ability to search through an email thread and automatically reinsert stripped photos in-place. Doing so would likely result in emails too large to either send or receive (not to mention the amount of development effort involved in implementing such logic).

Your options are:

  1. Go and find every “missing” photo yourself, save them to your desktop (macOS) or camera roll (iOS) then manually attach them all to your forwarded email.
  2. Select each individual email that contains photos, then click Message → Forward as Attachment from the menu bar (also available from the right-click menu). This solution requires a Mac.
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