(Reposting this, since Python.org's mail servers are having issues)

BTW, what do you think about changing the way we hold messages for digests? E.g. instead of putting them in an mbox file, where it's more difficult to skip bad messages, stick them in a queue-like directory and pull them from there. Any messages that can't be read and scrubbed would just be removed.

Hey Barry,

Do you mean as mailman builds the file during the day for the digest? If so, why would there be a bad message in there? If mailman's already processed a message and blasted it out to all the normal delivery people, why would there be a problem with it?

Also, while we are sort of on the topic, would it be possible to put the message count back in the subject line? I recall there was a problem with the count being off from the actual number of messages... is this what you were getting at?

One thing I hacked into a 2.0.x version was a "brief" digest - one that only gave the message subject list. The changes in ToDigest in 2.1.x were such that it made it a lot more difficult to make this happen. It would be great to get it back. I can revisit the code and see if I can come up with a patch, but other things need to stablize a bit.

Bob