Hi there!
On 31 Jan 00, at 23:11, Paula Ford wrote
about "Re: OT: Mailers that support MIME digests":
> >> So if a digest contains, say, 30 messages, you receive one mail message
> >> with 30 attachments? This sounds tedious to deal with in any mailer.
>
> > Well no. I tested Pegasus in this regard. Whenever you open a
> > MIME digest, a new window opens up listing the messages as if you had
> > opened a folder!!
>
> OK, I get it. That does sound nice, but it seems that Pegasus is the
> only mailer that does that.
I really can't say for sure. AFAIK, LookOut does it _exactly_ as TB performs;-
) Which makes me think that TB developers have borrowed a good bit from
LookOut (just remember the address separator issue: _every_ other program
uses comma, RFCs say "use comma and nothing but the comma", but
LookOut and TB still use semicolon;-))
Relatively new mailers like Poco don't work with MIME digests well, too...
I presume, there _do_ exist MUAs that do it like Pegasus does, but I don't
know any;-( Actually, there _exist_ things that only Pegasus does;-) I'd sure
wish to see _many_ of these in TB!
> > Forte" Agent does it differently. It 'bursts' the MIME digest
> > into separate messages (if you so choose) into the folder in which you
> > download the MIME digest. You may then go through the messages.
>
> For a mailing list, I don't see how this would be much different than
> receiving messages individually, then filtering them to a folder.
Yes, exactly my point. I'd personally prefer the way how Pegasus does it.
> Frankly, I don't understand why people prefer to receive the plain-text
> digests, except that they don't know how to filter messages to folders.
> So much easier to deal with separate messages, I think.
Yup. But MIME digests are in many cases different from this. It makes
archiving mailing lists quite simple, besides...
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