Gmail now lets you add emails as attachments

Feature allows you to write a summary message, and attach the set of supporting emails

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How it works: Highlight messages that you want to attach to the new mail. You can now attach emails to other emails in Gmail without downloading them first.
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Hold the left click on the mouse until you see the blinking cursor. Users can either use the attach button when drafting a new email or can select multiple emails, and find the option of "Forward as attachment" in the three-dot menu.
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Drag highlighted messages to the draft window. There is no need to create a brand new thread for replying to an email, as well. Just pop out the draft window when replying to someone, then drag and drop emails to it like a user would do while creating a new draft entirely.
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Draft window will change to show where emails can be dropped. The feature will be rolling out to all G suite editions gradually within the next month.
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Emails will show as attachments on the draft window.
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Another way to insert emails in a new thread is to select the emails and then from the overflow (three-dot) menu select “Forward as attachment”.
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To reply to an existing thread, you can pop-out the compose window and then drag and drop emails to it.
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