Re: Threading using digest and kmail (was Re: Exim4 not routing local mail ... )

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On 20140803_1328-0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> 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.

I've spent some time recently, trying to use the Gmail browser
interface. I would never switch to it from Mutt, excepting only if
Microsoft does a corporate take-over of Debian (They are both
corporations under the Law, and under the Law, strange, unnatural
things can happen, as explained in a recent post by Lisi)

I think the digest form is a thing of the past. It is impossible to 
keep up with all the different threads of thought that are mixed together
in a single digest. The digest form is probably slower than individual
emails *because*of* the extra mental effort of disentangling the threads.

YMMV, etc.

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net