Valdis Kletnieks to Brian Anderson: > > I enjoy reading some of the messages in the Full Disclosure list however I > > opt > > to receive the list as a daily digest. This has the problem (for me) that I > > have > > to scroll thru the entire email message looking for the item(s) that I want > > to read. > > Some mailing list software (such as LSoft's Listserv) allow the user to > decide whether > to receive each item in a separate mail, or in a standard flat-ascii digest, > or a mime/multipart format digest.
As defined in section 5.1.5 of RFC 2046... ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2046.txt > I have no clue as to whether Mailman supports it, however - merely that it's > not a totally outrageous request, and it's at least theoretically doable... Mailman apparently supports it: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node19.html Mailman supports two standard digest formats, and if digests are enabled, users can select which of the two formats they receive. One is MIME digests, where each message is an attachment inside a multipart/digest. This format also contains a summary table of contents, and of course the an optional header and footer, and it retains most of the headers of the original messages. The second type is called ``plaintext'' digests because they are readable in mail readers that don't support MIME. Actually, they adhere to the RFC 1153 digest standard. The retain some, but not all of the original messages, but can also include a summary and headers and footers. > (Incidentally, getting a digest as a mime/multipart is a *BIG* win if your > mail software deals well with it, especially if (for example) somebody > attaches > a .tar.gz or .zip of data to the mail - if your MUA does multipart well, it's > just as easy as handling any other .tar.gz attached to a mail. If it shows up > as a flat-ascii, you're going to have some hand-editing to recover that > attachment....) Indeed, though I don't use the digested form of the list, so am not sure my "vote" should count. That said, the current Mailman dox seem to say that enabling digest mode should give the _subscriber_ the option of which digesting method they get. Perhaps the list admins need to update their version of Mailman, as I seem to recall that earlier versions supported only the non-MIME digest format... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
