How to Forward Emails as Attachments Without Revealing Addresses

Forwarding emails as attachments is a clean and useful way to share them with others. Unfortunately, doing this will usually also share all the email addresses of the original message with the recipient of the forwarded message: the sender (which is desirable), but also all the To: and Cc: recipients (which should be avoided in general).

Forward Emails as Attachments Without Revealing Addresses

To forward an email as an attachment without revealing all the addresses in it:

• Save the message you want to forward as a .eml or .msg file.
• Open the saved message in a text editor like Notepad.
• Delete all the email addresses you do not want to reveal.
  • Usually, you can simply remove the To: and Cc: lines completely.
• In your email client, forward the original message as an attachment.
• Before sending the forward, however, delete the automatically generated attachment.
• Attach your edited .eml or .msg file instead.
• Continue composing and delivering the forward as usual.