Re: Splitting digest into separate mails (was OT: Broken digest)
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 01:58 +0200, an unknown sender wrote:
> > > The admin will not "repeair the digest", this as been going on
> > > for like a decade -- please subscribe the normal way if you care
> > > about
> > > not breaking threading, this problem will not be going away.
> >
> > It's broken since some days. I guess you're referring to another issue,
> > that can cause that e.g. references aren't correct, e.g. if a user
> > replies to the complete digest instead of an independent mail of the
> > digest.
>
> You can split the digest into its individual messages, with subjects
> and threading intact, using procmail and formail. Or rather, when
> currently reported problems with the digest are resolved you should be
> able to do it. I used this method successfully a few years ago when I
> used to subscribe to the digest.
>
> The procmail recipe is
> :0
> *^TO_\/debian-user-digest@lists\.debian\.org
> | formail +1 -ds procmail
>
> You should be able to add procmail into your mail delivery chain if
> you receive mail locally, but probably not if you keep mail on a
> remote IMAP or webmail server.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
Evolution should work too, AFAIK it's only because digest is borked.
- Ralf
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