[R] Digest reading is tedious

[David Whiting]

Hi Adrian,

Here's what I used to use for a list I used to subscribe to (it is the
first example in the man page for formail, it worked for me and I never
went further playing with formail):

:0:
* !
* ^TO_expert at linux-mandrake\.com
| formail +1 -ds >>new/expert


Here is a rough summary of what it does:

:0:    (is something to do with file locking (I think))
* !    (I can't remember what this does)
* ^TO_expert at linux-mandrake\.com

^TO_ means the email address is in the To: *or* the CC: header. Note
that you have to escape the dot in the .com bit.

| formail +1 -ds >>new/expert

This pipes the digest to formail, splits the messages and puts them all
into a mailbox called new/expert (in this case).

For you, the recipe might be something like:


:0:
* !
* ^TO_r-help at stat\.math\.ethz\.ch
| formail +1 -ds >>R-undigested



HTH,

Dave

Adrian Dusa wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 23:47, Martin Maechler wrote:
> 
>>>>>>>"Trevor" == Trevor Hastie <hastie at stanford.edu>
>>>>>>>    on Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:27:32 -0700 writes:
>>
>>    Trevor> [...snip...]
>>
>>But that has been an option in mailman, the software behind our
>>mailing lists  --- for ages ---
>>
>>[...snip...]
>>I hope this helps,
>>Martin
> 
> 
> I use MIME for digest reading, with KMail under SuSE 9.2. The way I get the 
> digest is a list of encapsulated messages. There is, however, a tedious 
> things: the encapsulated messages are not numbered...
> (so I still have to scroll down to find a particular message, guessing the 
> right place where it might be; odd enough, there is no "Find text" inside a 
> message in KMail).
> 
> If there's any option in KMail to split the digest into threaded messages, I 
> couldn't find it. I tried to figure out how to use procmail and formail but 
> is too complex for a regular user.
> 
> Is it possible to get numbered encapsulated messages?
> TIA,
> Adrian
> 

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