The only exception is if you're asked to simply forward something from a senior person on to a third/external party. The risk in making even minor changes is that it trains you to not consider modifying those mails an issue which can start blurring the borders between " he missed an S here" and " I'm sure he meant that we would be making that deadline". If you're communicating with third parties and you're worried about perception issues of some content or even formatting earlier in the email chain, that's a clear sign that you shouldn't be forwarding that mail.įrom now on, consider the original mail as inviolate and forward it as-is and only when needed. Many, if not most, people will be annoyed or hurt that you felt the need to "fix" what they wrote originally, even if what they wrote was crap.Īnd if you're making more substantial changes by guessing at intent, which can happen easily when you're improving the writing of someone writing in their second or third language, you can cause all sorts of problems.
If you're "only" making harmless typo fixes that could be seen as petty or like you're overly fixated on spelling and grammar, and you risk being seen as having more of an administrative role 2. When you're forwarding an email, it's implied that you're leaving the original email chain untouched or that you use some kind of formatting to make it clear where you're adding comments.
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