Digest reading is tedious
Hi Adrian, Here's what I used to use for a list I used to subscribe to (it is the first example in the man page for formail, it worked for me and I never went further playing with formail): :0: * ! * ^TO_expert at linux-mandrake\.com | formail +1 -ds >>new/expert Here is a rough summary of what it does: :0: (is something to do with file locking (I think)) * ! (I can't remember what this does) * ^TO_expert at linux-mandrake\.com ^TO_ means the email address is in the To: *or* the CC: header. Note that you have to escape the dot in the .com bit. | formail +1 -ds >>new/expert This pipes the digest to formail, splits the messages and puts them all into a mailbox called new/expert (in this case). For you, the recipe might be something like: :0: * ! * ^TO_r-help at stat\.math\.ethz\.ch | formail +1 -ds >>R-undigested HTH, Dave
Adrian Dusa wrote:
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 23:47, Martin Maechler wrote:
"Trevor" == Trevor Hastie <hastie at stanford.edu> on Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:27:32 -0700 writes:
Trevor> [...snip...] But that has been an option in mailman, the software behind our mailing lists --- for ages --- [...snip...] I hope this helps, Martin
I use MIME for digest reading, with KMail under SuSE 9.2. The way I get the digest is a list of encapsulated messages. There is, however, a tedious things: the encapsulated messages are not numbered... (so I still have to scroll down to find a particular message, guessing the right place where it might be; odd enough, there is no "Find text" inside a message in KMail). If there's any option in KMail to split the digest into threaded messages, I couldn't find it. I tried to figure out how to use procmail and formail but is too complex for a regular user. Is it possible to get numbered encapsulated messages? TIA, Adrian
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