# Inhalt eingehender E-Mails sollte nicht gelöscht werden, wenn die Einstellung „Mailing-Listen-Spiegelung" aktiviert ist

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/content-of-incoming-emails-shouldnt-be-deleted-when-the-mailing-list-mirror-setting-is-enabled/107280>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [23. Januar 2019 um 11:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/content-of-incoming-emails-shouldnt-be-deleted-when-the-mailing-list-mirror-setting-is-enabled/107280 "2019-01-23T11:52:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![icaria36](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/icaria36/32/426431_2.png) [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)\
**Post date:** [23. Januar 2019 um 11:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/content-of-incoming-emails-shouldnt-be-deleted-when-the-mailing-list-mirror-setting-is-enabled/107280/1 "2019-01-23T11:52:10Z")

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Currently incoming emails go through a process to delete signatures, entire replies quoted, and basically any _noise_ not part of the actual new message. While this is working well for the Reply Via Email use cases, for the Mailing List Mirror use case this trimming can be damaging.

In a mailing list mirror all content is expected to be mirrored. If actually valid content is trimmed accidentally, then not only the people receiving the emails will miss that content, the category serving as archive will miss that content too. This defeats the purpose of a mirror.

Incoming emails could still be processed trying to identify quoted replies and signatures, but instead of deleted they could be hidden behind a `[...]` button, leaving to users the option of expanding the full content.

Background:

> [@Text of forwarded emails don't show up in posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/text-of-forwarded-emails-dont-show-up-in-posts/23155/27):
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> I guess we could add a setting to disable trimming for mailing list mirrors. It could make sense for lists where members know how to behave and don’t include hundreds of useless lines of text from previous emails. Can you create a feature request for it?

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