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Re: Pine & Redhat-digest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wierdl Mate)
Thu Oct 31 11:30:42 1996
To: RHS Linux User <andreas@ag.or.at>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:04:00 +0100."
<Pine.LNX.3.91.961030165842.8535r-100000@localhost>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:23:34 -0600
From: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
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> Hi!
>
> I'm just wondering how one can reply with pine to redhat-digest messages
> including the text of the digest? (I don't want anything fancy, just the
> basic functionality *grin*)
> Problem is, that pine interprets the message a MIME message with
> attachments, and one doesn't get the attachments when replying.
>
> Andreas
I would have thought that pine can read and burst digests. So I asked
your question a year ago at vaarious places but I never got an
answer. If you do not get an answer either, I have several
suggestions.
1) Use Emacs as a mailer. It is almost as easy to use as pine, and you
have pull down menus in X. In emacs, you can undigestify (burst) a
digest into pieces, so it is easy to reply to individual messages in
the digest. But even if you do not burst the digest, you can select a
piece of text in a message, and you can include that piece of text
(nicely indented) in the reply. I know of no other mailer that can do
this so easily. The downside is that at a terminal
(not in X) the interface is not as great as pine's --- pine is
unbeatable in this respect.
2) Use MH-e: Emacs interface for MH. In my opinion it is more
flexible, and easier to use than the standard mail of Emacs. The
downside is the lack of menus --- but I can send you a file which will
enable menus for MH. Digests are very easy to handle.
Also, MH can be used from the command line, so in principle you
do not even have to start a separate mailer program to send, read,
etc messages.
3) Exmh, IMHO, is close to the perfect choice for mailing (especially that
they will have address-book in the next release). The downside is
you can only use it in X. Digests are just a breeze to handle.
Mate
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