[Mailman3-dev] HTML Digests

[Ian A B Eiloart]

--On Thursday, April 1, 2004 12:31 pm -0800 Mark Dadgar 
<mark at pdc-racing.net> wrote:

> One of my subscribers asked if HTML digests were available under Mailman.
> He pointed out that the ability to click on a subject in the TOC and
> automatically skip down to the appropriate post would be a really cool
> feature.

Well, that works for people that happen to have mail clients which support 
that feature. I guess it couldn't hurt much to add it as an option.

However, I'd like to see better support of MIME digests. I use mulberry, 
which shows me a list of mime attachements. I can see how many messages I 
have in the digest, their content type, size and name. Unfortunately, the 
parts are all named like this:
    "Unnamed Part #1"
    "Unnamed Part #2"
    "Unnamed Part #3_1_1"
    "Unnamed Part #3_2_1"
    "Unnamed Part #4"

Consistently, #1 is the message "header" boiler plate text - btw, can't we 
call that something different to distinguish it from email headers. 
"Leader" text, for example.
# 2 is the TOC
# 3_n_1 is the nth message
# 4 is the message footer.

Mulberry displays the message in two panes, with the part list in the top 
pane, and the selected MIME part in the bottom pane. I can skip back to 
Part #2 to select the next interesting part to view, ***feature request*** 
but it would be so much easier if the MIME parts were named for the subject 
text and sender name, for example. ***/feature request***

Actually, I prefer to get undigested messages, filter them using the RFC 
2369 headers, and view the mailbox properly threaded.
-- 
Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS