extracts all of the original message' header linesand single string replace method call does the work of adding the quotes to the original message body simply type what wish to say in reply (the initial paragraph in the mail' text areaand press the send button to route the reply message to the mailbox on my mail server again physically sending the reply works the same as sending brand-new message--the mail is routed to your smtp server in spawned send-mail threadand the send-mail wait pop up appears while the thread runs forwarding message is similar to replyingselect the message in the main windowpress the fwd buttonand fill in the fields and text area of the popped-up composition window figure - shows the window created to forward the mail we originally wrote and received after bit of editing figure - pymailgui forward compose window much like repliesforwards fill from with the sender' address in mailconfigthe original text is automatically quoted in the message body againbcc is preset initially the same as fromand the subject line is preset to the original message' subject prepended with the string "fwd:all these lines can be changed manually before sending if you wish to tailor always have to fill in the to line manuallythoughbecause forward is not direct reply--it doesn' necessarily go back to the original sender furtherthe the pymailgui client