On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:54:07 -0500
Edward Reid <edward@paleo.org> said...
> Eudora Pro 4.2.2 Mac:
>
> Has an option "receive MIME digests as attachments". Applies when the
> message is received, and thus the presentation of a given message is
> determined on receipt.
>
> Shows the digest as an attachment. Does NOT allow reading it as a
> single message. Double-clicking it creates a mini-mailbox, in which you
> can read individual messages. It does not understand the cid: URL. The
> individual messages in the mini-mailbox only have header information
> from the messages within the digest. In this message, the only header
> was Subject. As a result, all messages show a From: ???@??? and require
> me to type the reply address. They do use the individual Subject, which
> normally would be the Right Thing; this thread is an exception.
Hmm! I don't think you would want to reply to the individual answers
in a FAQ, but you might want to reply to the first chunk (TOC etc), so
it might be a useful convention to add some more useful headers there.
OTOH, Eudora is primarily a mail agent (AIUI) and it is really news
readers where we want this method to be effective. Or does Eudora do
news as well?
>
> As I say, the above is with the option "receive MIME digests as
> attachments" ON. According to the documentation, with the option off
> the digest is displayed as a single long message, and it's not possible
> to switch views of a single message.
But does it then show the pieces with nice delimiters in between?
>
> The newsreader I use, Hogwasher, simply displays the contents. I'll ask
> the author for comments.
That seems bad. One would have hoped it would at least have shown the
other bits as attachments for you to open.
BTW, I was surprised that my own mailer (dtmail) did not even try to do
anything at all. Clearly it does not recognise multipart/digest, but it
does normally recognise multipart/mixed, and I would have expected it to
default to that behaviour.
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