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[phil]

I get a digest several times a day.
When I wish to respond to an item I must
cut and paste the item and the subject line.
Is there something to click on for a simple reply?
Using an old mozilla mail.
Thanks

 

[Peter Hansen]

I get a digest several times a day.
When I wish to respond to an item I must
cut and paste the item and the subject line.
Is there something to click on for a simple reply?
Using an old mozilla mail.

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, and I'm sure "old mozilla" wasn't. Either accept the
hard way, or stop using the "digest" approach.

(Please try not to use the Python list for basic questions about "how do
I use my computer". If everyone did that, this place would be a mess
and your digests would be ten times larger. Thanks.)

-Peter

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard]

[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.

(Moreover, with not so much trickery, it is Python extensible. I
vaguely remember having written one or two Python backends for Gnus.)

 

[Grant Edwards]

I get a digest several times a day.
When I wish to respond to an item I must
cut and paste the item and the subject line.
Is there something to click on for a simple reply?
Using an old mozilla mail.

Instead of accessing the newsgroup through an e-mail gateway,
why not use a newsreader and access it directly? It eliminates
all the hassles associated with digested mail. I even use
gmane.org to access "normal" mailing lists via a newsreader.

 

[Mike Meyer]

[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

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

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, and I'm sure "old mozilla" wasn't. Either accept the
hard way, or stop using the "digest" approach.

Apparently the Agent Newsreader (if used for email) has such an
option:

AGENT help>>> If you are on a mailing list and expect to receive digests
on a regular basis, you can set up Agent to burst the digests received,
allowing you to see the contents of each digest as separate sections.

I was sure Eudora has something similar, but can't find it.
Unless "Receive MIME digest as a mailbox attachment"

EUDORA help>>> Turn this on if you want Eudora to create a mailbox
specifically for email messages from a mailing list that supports MIME
digest.

Maybe this means the digest contents will be saved as an MBX
file that can be opened to show individual messages.

--

 

[D H]

I get a digest several times a day.
When I wish to respond to an item I must
cut and paste the item and the subject line.
Is there something to click on for a simple reply?
Using an old mozilla mail.
Thanks

Perfectly valid question.
Add an nntp connection in mozilla mail (or thunderbird), and add the
comp.lang.python group, or access the group via google groups.