[clug] [OT] Test

[Steve Walsh]

On 01/27/2017 12:05 AM, Bryan Kilgallin (laptop) wrote:
> I have a question about Linux member digestibility. I notice that both 
> my old Netspeed and my new iiNet subscriptions are in the first 
> category. What's different about the second? 
 From the mailman website help section

  2.6 The Digest Options Category

Digest delivery is a way to bundle many articles together into one 
package, which can be delivered once per day (if there were any posted 
articles), or whenever the package is bigger than a specified limit. 
Some users may prefer this style of delivery for higher traffic lists 
since they will receive fewer messages.

Mailman supports two standard digest formats, and if digests are 
enabled, users can select which of the two formats they receive. One is 
MIME digests, where each message is an attachment inside a 
multipart/digest. This format also contains a summary table of contents, 
and of course the an optional header and footer, and it retains most of 
the headers of the original messages.

The second type is called ``plaintext'' digests because they are 
readable in mail readers that don't support MIME. Actually, they adhere 
to the RFC 1153 digest standard. They retain some, but not all of the 
original messages, but can also include a summary and headers and footers.