why is the digest list all chopped up

1998-02-05 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Hello,

I am trying to subscribe to the Debian users list in diogest form
but it's coming to me all chopped up in a bunch of attachments.

Can I get it as one long email like other digests...

Please reply to me directly as well as the list as I don't
get all the messages/attachments especially the ones towards
the end and therefore probably won't be able to see your reply
to the list.

Thanks for you help.
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Re: why is the digest list all chopped up

1998-02-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I am trying to subscribe to the Debian users list in diogest form
 but it's coming to me all chopped up in a bunch of attachments.
 
 Can I get it as one long email like other digests... 

This format is called MIME (RFC 1341) digest format. Actually it has quite
some advantages. A good mailreader like gnus can split it automaticaly in
idividual messages (in a seperate folder) or you can use procmail to split
it AFAIK.

From one example in the procmail docs:

# The next recipe will split up Digests into their individual messages.
# Don't do this if you use a global lockfile before this recipe (deadlock)

:0
* ^Subject:.*Digest
|formail +1 -d -s procmail

LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from   # Put it here, in order to avoid logging
# the arrival of the digest.

# An alternative and probably more efficient solution to splitting up a digest
# would be (only works for standard format mailbox files though):

:0:
* ^Subject:.*Other Digest
|formail +1 -ds cat this_lists_mailbox

But I don't know for sure if that works, as I never used any digest.

Ciao,
Martin


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