On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 14:45 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:20:39 -0400, Krzysztof Adamski wrote: > > I try to only use open source applications for my email reading, > > Evolution, K9 on Android and Pine on Linux over ssh. > > > > My point which you missed is that Evolution is not available > > everywhere, and expecting everybody to be able to filter mail based > > on > > what is available in Evolution is unreasonable. > > Hi, > you only care about yourself, try to see the whole situation for > users > of such MUAs. > > I for example use an iPad. The iPad doesn't provide sane filter to > folder options. I decided against digest, because communication works > much faster without the delay caused by collecting messages for the > digest. To make it neat, the iPad's MUA collects the mails by thread > related folders. If threading is broken, this doesn't work. Replies > to > digest tend to break the thread more often, than non-digest replies. > To > make a long story short, especially when using a tablet PC's or > mobile > phone's MUA without good filter to folder options, the thread is much > more important, so digest is much more an issue for those MUAs and > far > away from being a solution to improve the workflow. By good sense, > I've > got no doubt, a minority of subscribers share your opinion, but also > without doubts, most users don't. I'm not per se against digest, but > you example is an argument con digest and not pro. > Regards, > Ralf Hi, Once upon a time I too used email digests, but not for a long time now. Even when I travel out of the city to the farm, the internet connection is now fast enough to negate any advantages of a digest. I fail to understand the difficulties of setting up separate mailboxes, (or mail folders), on ANY platform, but I set up my mail filters server-side. I use Evo on GNU+Linux and the open source K9-mail on my Android devices, (telephones and tablets). K9-mail is wonderful in that it allows you to designate mail folders as 1st class or 2nd class and only display the ones that you desire. For example, I designate my work email folders as class 1 and have them show up on all devices and my mailing lists as class 2 (unless it is one of the lists that I really like), and only have it show up on some devices. Naturally, all of the mail is automatically sorted into the correct folders and inside of there, I prefer if they are properly threaded, (and preferably *not* top posted, although I have sadly given up on that...Thanks Microsoft Outlook and Gmail and Yahoo mail). Therefore, I would agree that elimating digests should not be a problem for anyone. Thanks. -- Anton Schenker
Email 1: [email protected] Email 2: [email protected] Website: http://anton.publicvm.com Edmonton, Alberta, Canada A: Because it messes up the reading order. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Reading a long email thread that uses "top-posting" is a recipe for turning you into a bobble-head. It's like reading the end of the book before the beginning. Sent from my open source and freedom respecting GNU-Linux computer using Evolution Email. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
