[Mailman-Developers] Feature Request - Interactive HTML Digests

[Tanstaafl]

On 2/20/2010 11:12 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2010, at 04:42 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> I've only ever seen this in one MUA, VM-in-Emacs. That MUA had a
> very cool feature that allowed you to "burst" MIME digests (and I
> think RFC 1153 digests). You'd be presented with a "virtual" folder 
> containing just the messages in the digest. This was really cool 
> because you could save and reply to individual messages just as if
> they arrived individually. I'd love to have this in more mail
> readers.

Interesting... is this feature documented anywhere online?

> As I mentioned in my previous message, I'm totally fine with an HTML
> digest that text-based MUA users can ignore.  But it should work
> reasonably well across the field of HTML supporting MUAs, and
> shouldn't be disastrous on any of them.

But really, how many different HTML supporting MUAs are there?

People who use web based mail won't be a problem. Then there's TB,
Outlook/Windows Mail (I think we can forget about Outlook Express
finally), Apple Mail... Pegasus? Old versions of Eudora? How many more?
I really don't think we should be worrying about mail clients that have
a tiny user base, just document which ones don't like the new digest...

> Or put it another way: if there are RFCs for this, follow them. If 
> there aren't, act as if there were by writing something RFC like in 
> the wiki that we can at least point to as a best practices document
> that MUA authors could follow.

Agreed... :)

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Best regards,

Charles