How to apply filters to posts

Cameron Simpson cs at cskk.id.au
Thu Jun 14 19:53:16 EDT 2018


On 14Jun2018 19:42, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 05:39:08 +1000, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
>declaimed the following:
>
>>Don't choose the daily digest, because it makes a special “digest”
>>message for you each day. That message is disconnected from any other
>>message, and so you will not be able to reply correctly to any
>
>	Unless one has a client that can do digest bursting -- if the digest
>provides all the proper headers for each message in it, the burst messages
>should link properly.
>
>	Though I don't use Forte Agent for email, so don't have actual
>experience with its bursting feature.

Digests drop a lot of headers. Historically, they omit the Message-ID and 
In-Reply-To headers, and thus completely break threading for new replies. It is 
better all around to just get individual list messages and arrange to file them 
off into a folder distinct from your main inbox.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>



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