[Mailman-Users] How is the list is setup for digests?

It's an Internet standard for MIME-formatted digests. I could
point you at the RFC that specifies the standard, but I don't know if
that would help you very much.
It can be done for any program that generates digests which are
then sent out by e-mail to recipients. Mailman does it, but so do
many other mailing list management (MLM) packages.

Of course, to make it look right, it does require support from
the client side -- they need to understand how to interpret the
formatting correctly, so that they can then present the digest to the
user in a way that makes sense.

Steve Campbell sent the message below at 11:29 5/5/2006:
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Mailman can send digests as either a text/plain format with all of
the posts appended one after the other in a single mail message or in
MIME format where you get a multipart/digest message.

You are obviously receiving the digest in MIME format which most
modern MUA programs understand and can handle. The way a particular
MUA handles such messages varies from one to the next. The text/plain
version would typically be used by somebody who is using an older MUA
that does not recognize the multipart/digest format.

The actual details of the multipart/digest MIME format are set out
somewhere within RFC2045-2049 though I have not looked at them
closely enough to tell you exactly where that information would be.
You can find plain text versions of these documents by going here:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html



Dragon

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There are a couple of other good answers in this thread, but they don't
address the "how" which is that this is a user option "Get MIME or
Plain Text Digests?" set on the user's options page and reflected as
the "plain" setting on the admin Membership List.

The default for new users is the mime_is_default_digest setting on the
admin Digest options page.

Mr. Sapiro,

Thanks again.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Sapiro" <msapiro at value.net>
To: "Steve Campbell" <campbell at cnpapers.com>; <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] How is the list is setup for digests?

This stuff is really amazing! I am just discovering what most of these items
mean after setting up a test site to play with.

Steve Campbell
campbell at cnpapers.com
Charleston Newspapers