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attaching a previous email to a reply to an email

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1) I get an email from (email@x) asking me to send information to (email address) 2) So I send an email to (email@x). I save this in Thunderbird 3) I then get a new message from (email@x) which asks me again to send the information in my previous email. This means they probably didn't receive the email sent in 2) or they didn't read it. 4) I click on reply to their message received in 3). I then want to attach the email which I sent previously in 2).

I cannot click on attach and select the email sent in 2) (which is saved in Thunderbird). I can of course click on the email sent in 2) and forward as an attachment, but I want it to be an attachment to the reply in 4) not a new email.

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1) I get an email from (email@x) asking me to send information to (email address) 2) So I send an email to (email@x). I save this in Thunderbird 3) I then get a new message from (email@x) which asks me again to send the information in my previous email. This means they probably didn't receive the email sent in 2) or they didn't read it. 4) I click on reply to their message received in 3). I then want to attach the email which I sent previously in 2). I cannot click on attach and select the email sent in 2) (which is saved in Thunderbird). I can of course click on the email sent in 2) and forward as an attachment, but I want it to be an attachment to the reply in 4) not a new email. How should I proceed?

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You can attach an email by drag and drop from the message list to a reply message, but it probably makes more sense to right-click your first reply in the Sent folder, Edit As New Message, and add something at the top like "here is the message I sent earlier".

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Yes, you are correct, it works. Thanks. It takes me a bit of time to find out how to do even this because in Windows 11 the message I am typing fills the screen and I have to go back down to the task bar to find the Thunderbird file list, there doesn't seem to be a way to maintain all the tabs visible on the screen when composing a message, but I guess I just haven't found it. By the way when I get your reply from Mozilla and click on "This solves my problem" in the Mozilla email page, my browser says "Page not found", however if I click on "This doesn't solve my problem", I get to the answer where I can mark it as "This solves my problem". Just mentioning it. Its all far too clever for me. Thanks

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On W11, an easy way to arrange the windows is to hover on the min./max. icon in the upper right and choose a side-by-side arrangement.

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