Hi Trevor, please excuse my late reply; your e-mail was sent when I started travelling (to Seattle and the DSC and Bioconductor workshops there). Also, I hope you don't mind if I follow this up on R-help, since there, the thread started and this does related to it.
"Trevor" == Trevor Hastie <hastie at stanford.edu>
on Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:06:08 -0700 writes:
Trevor> Dear Martin I may still be doing something wrong.
Trevor> Here is what I see now in Mozilla Firefox (attached
Trevor> jpeg file of screen dump)
isn't that "Thunderbird" ?
"Firefox" the web browser, "Thunderbird" the mail client?
Trevor> This is still not the convenient layout I was
Trevor> envisaging. Ideally one would have the usual list
Trevor> of contributions, with authors, and they would be
Trevor> clickable
I've now looked at your screen shot and agree this is really not
satisfactory.
{In my good old Emacs VM mail reader things are different: all
is nice with a virtual mail folder of individual messages}
Hmm, I've checked :
The MIME type used for the whole digest is
'Content-Type: multipart/digest'
and then 'Content-Type: message/rfc822'
for each individual message.
Since there *are* mail clients that nicely support these MIME
types, I wonder why thunderbird does not.
I'd say this is clearly a deficiency in thunderbird;
or is it something you could optionally configure to it?
What are other readers' experiences with mailman mailing lists
in digest mode -- using "MIME" type delivery?
Regards,
Martin