--- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <step...@xemacs.org>
> Andrew Hodgson writes: > > > I run a high volume list (around 80 messages per day), and we have > > complaints from digest users that the digests are difficult to work > > with. One requested feature is could the digests be in HTML > > format, and a link be presented in the table of contents to go to > > each message. Can this be done in Mailman by working with the > > digest templates? > > No, it cannot be done without coding. > > And it would not be easy. HTML does not provide a "mail message" > element, so although it would be trivial to create the table of > contents, there is no good way to indicate what is at the other end of > those links. > > So the approach would have to be to rip the messages into their > component atoms and put them back together, with all the pieces either > suppressed as "uninteresting" or reencapsulated in HTML for > presentation. Images and attachments would have to be handled. In > other words, somebody would have to write a web mail program. I believe that what Andrew is really looking for is just something that could put in anchor links to the beginning of each message's test as the message is HTMLified. I agree that it would require code, but I don't think that code would need to have semantic knowledge of mail messages; it only needs to know where the edge of each message is. It's possible there's enough syntactical information in a current RFC-format digest to get that done, and for all I know, there may be code out there to do it already. The key question is: if there *is* something which can take an RFC formatted digest message, and convert it to multipart/mixed with an HTML body as Andrew's users desire... is there anyway to get Mailman to *call* that, in the digestifying process? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org