[Mailman-Developers] Feature Request - Interactive HTML Digests

[Mark Sapiro]

Tanstaafl wrote:

>On 2010-02-20 11:31 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> I actually find interacting with the MIME format digest where I have the
>> ability to open any specific message of interest and reply to it (even
>> quoting only selected text if the MUA supports it) to be fairly
>> painless, and it doesn't break threading.
>
>Yes, that works (except the Reply-To_List, which I think will be fixed
>by changing the default soon?),


Yes, see <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/526143>


>but I'm curious (maybe I'm missing
>something obvious?)...
>
>In a digest with lots (hundreds) of messages with long threads, how do
>you know which individual/attached message to open so you can then Reply
>as desired?
>
>Or... do you use EMACS too? :(


One does not need Emacs VM. Even mutt can do a credible job of dealing
with MIME digests. Maybe you could beat on the Thunderbird developers
to do a better job of presenting digests. It seems like a lot of what
you want could be handled better on the client side.

There are lots of reasons why this isn't an issue for me. Depending on
what I'm doing, I may not need to know which message to open in order
to reply because it's already open in order to read it in the first
place.

Also, those Mailman lists from which I do receive digests have
reasonable size limits on digests so I've never received a digest with
hundreds of messages, probably I've never received one with as many as
20 messages.

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