Subject: Bursting digests from within Pine

From: Joseph Urban <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 09:01:37 -0400 (EDT)

Unless I've missed it somehow, I don't believe Pine has a
builtin digest routine?

 Has anyone written a -- any awk, nawk or perl scripts to
burst digests within Pine?

   Thanks,

     Joseph

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From: Richard Kooijman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 18:54:56 +0200 (MET DST)

> burst digests within Pine?

If you mean that you want to split up a digest into individual messages, 
then I'll have to make yet another reference to the procmail package.
This is includes 'formail' which can split up digests quite easily
(from the 'formail' man page):

     To split up a digest one usually uses:
          formail +1 -ds >>the_mailbox_of_your_choice
     or
          formail +1 -ds procmail

(Standard input is read for data).
I haven't tried to use this with the new pipe feature in Pine 3.9,
but I guess it will work.

Richard.

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From: [email-masked] (Steven D. Majewski)
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 16:48:27 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>burst digests within Pine?

I don't have an answer to your question. ( When I need to undigest
something, I usually pop into 'mush' and use the 'undigest' command.)

But I have another question:

How can we get mailing list digesters to start supporting MIME ? 

Wouldn't that be a better way to include a number of messages ? 
Since typically, most digests use "--------" as a break between
mail messages, wouldn't a mime boundary that started with that
sequence be backward compatable for the MIME impaired ? 

[ Is this already standard practice on any mailing lists ? 
  If it is, I haven't noticed it. ] 

One nice feature of using MIME message parts for digests is that
you don't typically have to undigest the whole digest to access 
a single message. 

For Pine, it would be nice if for content type "message", it
would allow Save as optionally, an append to an existing mailbox. 
Even better would be supporting viewing a MIME digest as a sort
of recursive mail-folder.

- Steve Majewski       (804-982-0831)      <[email-masked]>
- UVA Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Dorner)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 09:02:26 -0500

>   If it is, I haven't noticed it. ] 

The only one I've seen botched it.  They wound up putting the entire
digest after the final boundary of the multipart, which was coincidentally
the first boundary of the multipart.

> of recursive mail-folder.

My problem with this is that digest messages aren't required to be mail
messages in the normal sense of the word.  They don't have to have
headers, for example.  One hopes this feature won't get used much.

-- 
Steve Dorner, Qualcomm Inc.