test Digest, Vol 80, Issue 85

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 13:44 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 12:44 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > Just because I *hate* speculation I subscribed my wife's email to the
> > digest of the fedora's user mailing list.  She uses T-Bird.
> > 
> > For each message in the digest there is a separate
> > mime-part/attachment
> > and the list is shown in a frame at the bottom of the email.  All of
> > the
> > mime-parts are display inline so you can scroll down and read them in
> > one "easy" motion.
> 
> Not to be outdone, I tried the same thing. I created a new account and
> specified digest mode. As you say, TBird works (quite elegantly I might
> add). KMail works too, if a little less elegantly (you have to
> double-click on the digest component you want to reply to, otherwise
> you'll get a reply to the digest as such, but at least it only quotes
> the digest lead-in material in that case).
> 
> OTOH Evolution just doesn't want to know. It treats a digest like any
> other message. I feel an Enhancement Request coming on ...

Correction, Evo actually does do it (the components are treated as
attachments and can be replied to individually). I wasn't looking
carefully enough. Sorry about that.

poc