Re: attachments and digest mode

[Carl Sorensen]

On 5/5/16 8:13 PM, "Cynthia Karl" <address@hidden> wrote:

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>> On May 5, 2016, at 7:05 PM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 5/4/16 8:00 PM, "Cynthia Karl" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> In my experience, all are available through links, but never the ones
>>> given in the digest.
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>> Links on digest work for me, but I get them in a special mode on
>>Outlook.
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>The special mode must originate with the digest sender, because I can¹t
>imagine how Outlook could otherwise convert the links I get into the
>actual links.
>
>What mode is it?  Can you send me in private an example of such a digest?

At my configuration page for lilyond-user I select digest mode, MIME.
When I do this, the emails in the digest show up as attachments to the
digest email, and I must read them in preview mode in Outlook.  If I then
open one of the attached digest emails, I can reply to that single email,
and all of the attachments work properly.

In contrast, I have set lilypond-auto to give me plain text digests.  This
creates a single plain text email with all of the individual emails
concatenated below as plain text.  On this list there are no attachments,
so I don't know if the attachment links work or not.

Plain text mode is easier to read; MIME mode is easier to reply to.  I
used to hate MIME mode because it was harder to read, but now I have
figured out how to work with it in Outlook.  So I like it for the user
list.  BTW, MIME mode is what GNU recommends.

Thanks,

Carl