Tanstaafl wrote: > >A really dumb question - is there no way to (reliably, or even at all?) >'interact' with just the headers of messages that are attached? Ie, >consider an HTML digest, with the individual messages as attachments, >with mailto: hyperlinks in the digest *body* that interact with the >headers in the *attached* messages... it seems it would eliminate the >issue of having to break down and deal with the individual parts of the >messages in the digest... but I'm probably just displaying more >ignorance for you all to laugh about (no worries, my skin is pretty >thick, and I know I'm totally ignorant about a lot of this stuff).
I think you were doing better when you first proposed what you wanted, i.e. a digest like Yahoo Groups "fully featured" digest with the addition of the 'reply' and 'top' links at the top as well as at the bottom of the message and 'threading' for the reply links. I even know how to do that, including in MM 3 at least, the link back to the message and/or thread in an archive. The part I don't know how to do well is the dealing with HTML messages and message attachments. Yahoo deals with them by converting HTML message bodies to plain text and pretending the attachments don't exist. I don't think pretending attachments don't exist is a proper solution. Converting HTML to plain text is something I can do with lynx or elinks, and in fact, Mailman already has a setting for HTML_TO_PLAINTEXT_COMMAND used by content filtering, so it could be used for digest conversion too, but it isn't the 'nicest' solution. I'e', if a list allows HTML in the first place, the list members probably want to see all the colors and fonts, embedded images and background stationery. I think possibly a better approach might be to take the present MIME format digest and convert the 'contents' part to an HTML part where clicking on a message subject would cause the MUA to open that message in a separate window/tab from where it can be viewd in it's full richness and replied to. I don't offhand know if such a thing can be done or if so, what MUAs might support it. Now you are trying to ask in technical terms about things about which you are admittedly ignorant, and your questions wind up not making much sense. I think this thread would be better off if you would concentrate on the features you want and let those who might implement them figure out how or if they can be provided. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
