Subject: digest mail

From: Junichi Saito <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 20:32:07 +0200 (CEST)

Some mailing lists offer the choice of subscribing to a digest foramt.

Is it possible to read concatenated mails of this kind as if they were
folders containing normal individual mails ? Are there stand-alone
programmes which can do this ?

j.

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From: Mike Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:53:02 -0500 (CDT)

> programmes which can do this ?

Interesting question.  Some 'digests' come in MIME format (a collection of
attachments).  If you can get it in that format, it works great in Pine.
You can save individual messages and then delete the digest, or you can
save the whole digest, or you can delete messages out of the digest and
save the rest.  Just use V instead of scrolling down when you receive the
digest.

If the digest is not in MIME format, sorry, I don't know anything that can
deal with that.

Better solution:  I used to use digests, now I just receive the list
postings in regular individual e-mail messages.  This would be
inconvenient, of course, but I now use procmail.  Procmail is a program
that sorts the incoming mail into an Incoming-Folders collection.  Pine
handles the separate incoming folders very well.  It works great.

Regards,

Mike

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