Bob Proulx wrote: > I used a variety of mailers back then and I don't recall which ones > handled digests nicely and which did not. I just tested mutt and digests and mutt handles message digests quite well. And furthermore because the Debian lists includes the individual messages as MIME attements it doesn't need to burst the digest apart first. That is an improvement over previous digests I have seen. To test I subscribed to the digest form of the list in order to get some digest messages to test. Looking at a message in mutt I see that each message comes as an message/rfc822 MIME attachment. In mutt I view the MIME attachment structure with 'v' in order to see the individual messages. I select one message and view it with <Return>. Mutt displays that message individually. I can forward-message, reply, group-reply, list-reply all normally. Mutt sets the message headers appropriately. Everything works. This should work with any mailer that gives the ability to view MIME attached message/rfc822 parts individually and list-reply to them. Don't list-reply to the digest. Instead list-reply to the individual message that is MIME attached to the digest. Bob P.S. I still think digests are less desirable because I don't see a way to view the discussion in a threaded view. Threaded views have been around for so long that I couldn't live without them. Of course Gmail and Outlook users don't have threaded views. But I am sure that if they did they wouldn't want to not have them either.
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