[imp] horde Digest format, replies

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting "Jens-U. Mozdzen" <jmozdzen at nde.ag>:

> Hi *,
>
> as suggested by mailman, I configured my mailing list membership to  
> send out digests in MIME format ("Your mail reader may or may not  
> support MIME digests. In general MIME digests are preferred, but if  
> you have a problem reading them, select plain text digests.").
>
> Unfortunately, I had to switch back to plain text mode: When  
> *replying* via IMP, all I get is this:
>
> Zitat von horde-request at lists.horde.org:
>> Send horde mailing list submissions to
>> 	horde at lists.horde.org
>>
>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>> 	http://lists.horde.org/mailman/listinfo/horde
>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>> 	horde-request at lists.horde.org
>>
>> You can reach the person managing the list at
>> 	horde-owner at lists.horde.org
>>
>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
>> than "Re: Contents of horde digest..."
>
> So isn't it ironical that the mailer reader this list is about, is  
> not handling the ML digests optimally? ;)

MIME Digests are preferred to help you *read* the list traffic.  They  
aren't designed to be easy to reply to.

Plain text digests are harder to read, but easier to edit when replying.

Not much you can do about that.  A good MUA should only ever generally  
reply to text in the "body" part (i.e. the first readable message  
part), which is what IMP does.

A MUA could be designed to allow individual replying to a  
multipart/digest part via the original "master" message address.   
However this is a *very* specific operation that would not be used by  
many people, so at least for purposes of IMP it is not a priority.

Quite honestly, IMHO it is much easier to read a list via individual  
message anyway.  If using mail filters to filter your mailing list  
messages into separate mailboxes, there is very little (if any)  
benefit from using a digest.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]