On 20140803_1328-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I used a variety of mailers back then and I don't recall which ones > > handled digests nicely and which did not. > > I just tested mutt and digests and mutt handles message digests quite > well. And furthermore because the Debian lists includes the > individual messages as MIME attements it doesn't need to burst the > digest apart first. That is an improvement over previous digests I > have seen. > > To test I subscribed to the digest form of the list in order to get > some digest messages to test. Looking at a message in mutt I see that > each message comes as an message/rfc822 MIME attachment. > > In mutt I view the MIME attachment structure with 'v' in order to see > the individual messages. I select one message and view it with > <Return>. Mutt displays that message individually. I can > forward-message, reply, group-reply, list-reply all normally. Mutt > sets the message headers appropriately. Everything works. > > This should work with any mailer that gives the ability to view MIME > attached message/rfc822 parts individually and list-reply to them. > Don't list-reply to the digest. Instead list-reply to the individual > message that is MIME attached to the digest. > > Bob > > P.S. I still think digests are less desirable because I don't see a > way to view the discussion in a threaded view. Threaded views have > been around for so long that I couldn't live without them. Of course > Gmail and Outlook users don't have threaded views. But I am sure that > if they did they wouldn't want to not have them either.
I've spent some time recently, trying to use the Gmail browser interface. I would never switch to it from Mutt, excepting only if Microsoft does a corporate take-over of Debian (They are both corporations under the Law, and under the Law, strange, unnatural things can happen, as explained in a recent post by Lisi) I think the digest form is a thing of the past. It is impossible to keep up with all the different threads of thought that are mixed together in a single digest. The digest form is probably slower than individual emails *because*of* the extra mental effort of disentangling the threads. YMMV, etc. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140804145217.gb19...@big.lan.gnu