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diff --git a/src/messagebuilder.cpp b/src/messagebuilder.cpp
index 42a0e31..fe23862 100644
--- a/src/messagebuilder.cpp
+++ b/src/messagebuilder.cpp
@@ -320,7 +320,40 @@ Result build(const OutgoingMessage &message, const Account &account)
// second renderer whose output could disagree with the HTML one.
GMimeObject *body = GMIME_OBJECT(makeTextPart("plain", message.markdownBody));
- if (message.sendHtml) {
+ // Item 171. A FORWARD sends one part, not an alternative, at the user's
+ // decision 2026-08-27: the Send-as-HTML toggle chooses which. A forward is
+ // a message whose shape the user has already decided by flipping that
+ // toggle, and sending both halves hands the choice to the recipient's
+ // client instead.
+ //
+ // The toggle is honoured even when the original had no plain-text part:
+ // with it off, an HTML-only original goes out as the text fallback that
+ // quoteBody() produced, and the formatting is lost. Chosen over forcing
+ // HTML for those messages, so the toggle means what it says.
+ //
+ // The markup arrives ALREADY SANITISED: whether to strip remote content is
+ // the user's per-forward choice, which a builder cannot see. Nothing is
+ // escaped here, deliberately, because this IS markup and escaping it would
+ // ship a message full of visible tags.
+ const bool forwarding = !message.forwardedHtml.isEmpty();
+
+ if (forwarding && message.sendHtml) {
+ // The original below the user's own text, separated by a rule so the
+ // two read as different messages. The plain part built above is
+ // discarded: this replaces it rather than joining it.
+ // `markdownBody` is the user's own note ALONE: the composer does not
+ // seed a text quote on an HTML forward, precisely so that what it
+ // shows and what it sends are the same thing (item 171). An earlier
+ // build seeded the quote and stripped it again here, which meant the
+ // user could edit a quote whose edits were discarded; the fix belongs
+ // at the composer, not in a subtraction here.
+ const QString htmlSource = MarkdownRenderer::toHtml(message.markdownBody)
+ + QStringLiteral("\n<hr>\n")
+ + message.forwardedHtml;
+ GMimePart *html = makeTextPart("html", htmlSource);
+ g_object_unref(body);
+ body = GMIME_OBJECT(html);
+ } else if (!forwarding && message.sendHtml) {
GMimePart *html = makeTextPart("html", MarkdownRenderer::toHtml(message.markdownBody));
GMimeMultipart *alternative = g_mime_multipart_new_with_subtype("alternative");
// Least-rich FIRST. A client renders the LAST alternative it