diff --git a/src/app/features/room/message/ForwardMessageDialog.tsx b/src/app/features/room/message/ForwardMessageDialog.tsx
index 3927ba9d5..abc6dc9ec 100644
--- a/src/app/features/room/message/ForwardMessageDialog.tsx
+++ b/src/app/features/room/message/ForwardMessageDialog.tsx
@@ -338,35 +338,43 @@ export function ForwardMessageDialog({ mEvent, onClose }: Props) {
     }
 
     const commentBody = comment.trim();
-    const results = await Promise.allSettled(
-      ids.map((id) => {
-        const destEncrypted = !!mx.getRoom(id)?.hasEncryptionStateEvent();
-        // Encrypted destinations keep the original (possibly encrypted-attachment)
-        // content; unencrypted ones get the plaintext version, or fail outright if
-        // that couldn't be built — never fall back to sending the encrypted `file`.
-        const contentToSend = fwdContent.file && !destEncrypted ? plaintextContent : fwdContent;
-        if (fwdContent.file && !destEncrypted && !contentToSend) {
-          return Promise.reject(new Error(plaintextContentError));
-        }
-        // threadId-aware overload (P3-8): explicit null = send to the main timeline.
-        // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-        const sendForward = () => mx.sendEvent(id, null, mEvent.getType() as any, contentToSend);
-        // Send the optional comment first so it reads as a note above the
-        // forwarded content. The room counts as failed if either send rejects.
-        // Track rooms whose comment already landed so a retry (after the FORWARD
-        // failed) doesn't post the comment twice — only the missing forward.
-        const needsComment = commentBody && !commentSentRef.current.has(id);
-        const step = needsComment
-          ? mx
-              // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-              .sendMessage(id, null, { msgtype: MsgType.Text, body: commentBody } as any)
-              .then(() => {
-                commentSentRef.current.add(id);
-              })
-          : Promise.resolve();
-        return step.then(sendForward);
-      }),
-    );
+    // Rooms are sent ONE AT A TIME. matrix-js-sdk queues message sends, and
+    // when one queued send fails permanently (e.g. 403 in a room you cannot
+    // post to) the scheduler rejects every send still waiting in the queue —
+    // so firing all rooms concurrently turned one forbidden target into
+    // "Failed to forward" for all of them, with half-sent comments (Gitea #194).
+    const sendToRoom = (id: string): Promise<unknown> => {
+      const destEncrypted = !!mx.getRoom(id)?.hasEncryptionStateEvent();
+      // Encrypted destinations keep the original (possibly encrypted-attachment)
+      // content; unencrypted ones get the plaintext version, or fail outright if
+      // that couldn't be built — never fall back to sending the encrypted `file`.
+      const contentToSend = fwdContent.file && !destEncrypted ? plaintextContent : fwdContent;
+      if (fwdContent.file && !destEncrypted && !contentToSend) {
+        return Promise.reject(new Error(plaintextContentError));
+      }
+      // threadId-aware overload (P3-8): explicit null = send to the main timeline.
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+      const sendForward = () => mx.sendEvent(id, null, mEvent.getType() as any, contentToSend);
+      // Send the optional comment first so it reads as a note above the
+      // forwarded content. The room counts as failed if either send rejects.
+      // Track rooms whose comment already landed so a retry (after the FORWARD
+      // failed) doesn't post the comment twice — only the missing forward.
+      const needsComment = commentBody && !commentSentRef.current.has(id);
+      const step = needsComment
+        ? mx
+            // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+            .sendMessage(id, null, { msgtype: MsgType.Text, body: commentBody } as any)
+            .then(() => {
+              commentSentRef.current.add(id);
+            })
+        : Promise.resolve();
+      return step.then(sendForward);
+    };
+    const results: PromiseSettledResult<unknown>[] = [];
+    for (const id of ids) {
+      // eslint-disable-next-line no-await-in-loop
+      results.push(...(await Promise.allSettled([sendToRoom(id)])));
+    }
 
     const failedIds: string[] = [];
     const failedNames: string[] = [];