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[Mike Meyer]

François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> [Peter Hansen]
>
>> You are forced to cut and paste if you want to get the messages in a 
>> digest.  I doubt any mail program has been designed to know how to do 
>> anything smarter,
>
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's wonderful Gnus (a much boosted, combined
> news/mail reader, running within or over Emacs) knows about digests.

So does the emacs VM mail reader. It bursts a digest into a collection
of submessages.

Unfortunately, digests often lose critical headers, making the reply
come out broken in some way. I've not read the python list as  a
digest, so I don't know if it will have problems or not.

        <mike
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