Auto forwarding Mail

Question

When an email is received from a specific, Windoze using, organisation I use Rules to auto-foward it to a number of other recipients.
However, the message changes formats during this process and what was originally a viewable message becomes an .html attachment:
Begin forwarded message:
From: @.police.uk
Date: 18 January 2007 10:37:21 GMT
Subject: HOME WATCH MESSAGE
(then with) mime-attachment.html
the original email looks like
XXXXXX
CRIME RING MESSAGE FOR WATCH SCHEME CO-ORDINATORS IN *
Please pass on to your scheme members, where appropriate
There has been a bogus official burglary on the afternoon of Wednesday 17 January, the victim being an 86 year old female. The offender gained entry to secure communal area in sheltered housing at *, and knocks on door of victim, posing as a Waterboard official and saying he was checking water pressure in the area. There was also a similar attempted bogus crime at the same address. Please remind your members that * never make unscheduled visits to check water for any reason, visits to households are always by appointment. Any without an appointment should be refused entry. To check authenticity of doorstep callers, please note following numbers:
(removed)
End of message, thank you.
Where I have put XXXX is a logo but it didn't copy/paste from the email.
So, what am I doing wrong? how can I get the message auto-forwarded in all its full glory?
Thanks.
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Answer 1

I’d try reducing as much as possible the alterations that Mail makes to the original message when forwarding it.
One thing to try would be turning OFF Preferences > Composing > Increase quote level.
Another would be using Redirect instead of Forward. Beware, however, that doing that may cause the rule to stop working for no apparent reason. Take a look at the following thread for a recent discussion of this issue:
Re: Redirecting multiple mail messages?