Attachments Weird In Auto-forward

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Attachments Weird In Auto-forward

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Attachments in PMs! When you send them to an auto-forwarding account, they behave oddly! The original recipient does NOT receive the attachment, but the forwarded recipient does.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

1. Create (or use) two linked accounts: MainAccount and SideAccount. SideAccount will generally forward PMs to MainAccount, which is great.
2. Send a PM with an attachment to SideAccount.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

SideAccount will receive a PM with an attachment from Sender. MainAccount will receive a PM with attachment from SideAccount.

ACTUAL RESULTS:

SideAccount receives a PM with NO ATTACHMENT from Sender. MainAccount receives a PM with attachment from SideAccount.

PRIORITY:

Low-medium. This is weird and looks a lot like a bug, but there's a workaround (look at attachments in main account.)
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My work around from this is to simply use other options other than the clunky attachments - like google docs with a link to the doc, or a hotlink for an image or an image embed from a web source.

I frankly despise how clunky attachments are and how for images they never display in full
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Re: Attachments Weird In Auto-forward

Post by Emma »

It's also notable that while it *usually* forwards, it's not 100%.

Of four attempts, three forwarded to MainAccount and were not in SideAccount. ONE was available in both accounts.

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