Q:

Thunderbird forward only most recent message from conversation

Sounds simple but I can't figure it out:
I have a lengthy email conversation chain. I would like to forward only the top (most recent) message to another person. I don't really want to have to delete all the other messages manually, because it would take a little bit of time, and I can already smell the formatting errors.
Is there a simple way of doing this without having to select all the other messages and deleting them by hand?

A:

Deleting every message manually will be tough since thunderbird handles all the quotes as "one". 
By default thunderbirdwill quote the whole original message if you choose to reply. However, you can select any text in a given mail and thunderbird will only quote the selected part. 
For your problem: While viewing the (multi-part) conversation, try to mark only the latest answer (that you want to quote). Hit Ctrl+R while the text is selected and thunderbird will only paste the latest answer to your yet to be written reply

