Procmail and surviving with digest mode (Was: Re: Getting facts

[nhoj at cd.chalmers.se]

You wrote:
> In closing--I would like to say that this list will return to far better
> health once it finally get put onto a different server, and can FINALLY get
> off of the #$%^^&^*& digest mode--too many of the really knowlegeable
> people here have been driven into the lurk mode by the digest format!

For those that are running a "Un*x", you can at least use procmail  to split  
the digest into individual messages again.

In my .procmailrc I have a line:
:0
* ^TO.*diy_efi-digest
|formail +1 -i Reply-To:diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu -ds appnmail DIYEFI

This splits the digest into single messages and appends them to my DIYEFI mailbox.

:0
* ^TO.*diy_efi
|appnmail DIYEFI

And this line copies non digest messages to the mail box. Unless you're  
running NeXTSTEP, you're unlikely to use "appnmail", and more likely to use a  
simple ">>" redirection of the output to the proper mailbox.

The "procmail" set of programs may work on other operating systems to.  
Though it doesn't give all advantages of a non-digest mode, you no longer  
have to dig through the digests to find interesting subjects --- provided  
that people write subject headers other than "Re: DIY_EFI Digest V4 #672".

Regards,
John Hornkvist