This idea comes from our daily conmunication. We often want forward the important messages or interesting messages to others. So our team solve this.
When we want to know wheather somebody need this in the forum, we found the idea Reply or forward messages to another channel and vote it.
We wish message forwarding could be used for more and more friends and we have the solution to solve it. Surely, we also can make this solution better and better.
We have this suggestion open on our forum which you can add your vote to. You, and others, have up to 10 votes on the forum to up-vote suggestions you think would make your use of Mattermost more valuable.
The more popular a feature idea is, the better chance it has of making it into the product!