On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 10:11 -0800, Mark Eggers wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 01:31 +0100, Colin Brace wrote: > > MJang wrote: > > > > > However, I'm on digest, and am not sure how to do this properly, when > > > answering a question. I'm guessing a reply direct to the digest won't > > > maintain the thread. > OK, I just tried MIME digests on Thunderbird 1.0 and Fedora Core 3 using KDE. Short review - it's pretty ugly. There is a lot of screen flicker as you move your mouse over various mail addresses. Showing attachments inline results in the same type of mail message you get from Evolution 2.0 with the added detraction of an attachment panel at the bottom. I didn't find a quick way to turn off the attachment panel or resize it. On the plus side, you got the mail message titles rather than the uninformative 'attachment' message. If you don't show the attachments inline, then you get a cleaner initial display (list of mail articles at the top and generic list of attachments in the attachment panel). However, opening an attachment will open a new window (with the attachment list at the bottom). Also, you have to count attachment messages and compare that with the list of topics in the digest. All and all, neither Thunderbird nor Evolution handle MIME digests well. Importing from Evolution 2 to Thunderbird is also a pain. You have to save your folders as mboxes, then copy the resulting file to your Local Folders area in Thunderbird. I don't know how to do nested folders yet, and I'm not going to mess with it until Thunderbird cleans up their digest handling. Feedback on that is probably best left to the Thunderbird forums, since this really has nothing to do with Fedora. ----- /mde/ just my two cents . . . .
