Re: attachments and digest mode

[David Wright]

On Fri 06 May 2016 at 15:08:30 (+0000), Carl Sorensen wrote:
> On 5/5/16 8:13 PM, "Cynthia Karl" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On May 5, 2016, at 7:05 PM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On 5/4/16 8:00 PM, "Cynthia Karl" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> In my experience, all are available through links, but never the ones
> >>> given in the digest.
> >> 
> >> Links on digest work for me, but I get them in a special mode on Outlook.
> >
> >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.

Is the attached the page in question?
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

> 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.

What's lilypond-auto all about?

> 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.

Where?

Cheers,
David.

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