[Mailman-Developers] Feature Request - Interactive HTML Digests

[Mark Sapiro]

Tanstaafl wrote:
>
>Here's what I'm imagining:
>
[...]
>
>3. When replying to a message, preserve the message subject *and* all of
>   the individual message references so that replying to messages from
>   the HTML digests doesn't break threading - basically so it looks as
>   if it was replied to individually and separately, not from the list
>   digest.


Current Mailman MIME format digests do this if the user's MUA supports
it.


>Apparently Yahoo's doesn't preserve the message header/references (bad),
>but it does preserve the subject.
>
>Also - I use Thunderbird, and when I click Yahoos 'Reply to Group', it
>does 2 things wrong, but I don't know if MM could do anything about this
>or if it would be a Thunderbird issue:
>
> 1) it uses the email clients 'default account' instead of the account
>    the user is in - so, if you just type something and click 'Send',
>    it is sent from the wrong account and will bounce since the email
>    address for that account is not a list/group member, and


This is a TBird issue.


> 2) Thunderbird's new 'Quote only selected text' doesn't work - in fact,
>    *nothing* is quoted. This issue is not as big as the first one,
>    since it can be worked around by simply copying the highlighted
>    text (more often than not I select text to quote rather than
>    quoting the whole thing) then 'pasting as quote'. Two more steps -
>    not that big a deal, but hey, if it can be coded to use the Clients
>    features, all the better.


Works for me with Tbird 3.0.1 and Mailman MIME digests and "Reply" or
"Reply All". "Reply List" is not offerred for a reply to a message
from the MIME digest, because there is no List-Post: header in the
individual message parts

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