As Thomas explained, a message forwarded with attachments will contain an attachment made up of the original message content.  It will contain two such attachments if the original message was received in both a plain text version and an HTML version.  One will be listed with file type "plain text" and the other with "HTML text".  You can remove them before sending.

I am using Pegasus ver 4.50 PB1 (Win 32). 

If I receive an email without any attachments and Forward it, the forwarded message includes an attachment.

When I Forward, I select "Forwarding with editing" and  "Forward any attachments". The added attachment seems to be just a copy of the text in the original message. It seems the "Forward any attachments" option is causing an attachment to be created. Is this normal?

PaulF 

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I am using Pegasus ver 4.50 PB1 (Win 32). 

If I receive an email without any attachments and Forward it, the forwarded message includes an attachment.

When I Forward, I select "Forwarding with editing" and  "Forward any attachments". The added attachment seems to be just a copy of the text in the original message. It seems the "Forward any attachments" option is causing an attachment to be created. Is this normal?

Yes, there is a message part that is assumed to be an attachment.  If there were only MIME attachments allowed then it would be easier to detect when a message part is or is not an attachment but as it stands you have to look at the attachments and delete the ones that you do not want.

PaulF 

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It should not happen, because by "attachment" the average user understands a document, and expect the forwarded message text to be a part of the new message.

Besides, mime attachments also clog the Attachments column in the windows. I am not interested in knowing whether someone sent me a message with a mime attachment or not. I am interested in pdf, doc, jpg.....

I have a similar problem. Or rather my recipient, who has complained they could not open the attachment, and did not know what it was. I promised I'd look into this for them. (I am aware I am replying to a 10 year old thread.)

The email I'm forwarding (continuing a discussion) is replicated in the body, so the recipient had no reason to suspect it would be the content of the mystery attachment, they managed to open the other attachments ok.