Re: [Evolution] Proposal: to eliminate the digest option for the Evolution mailing list

["Anton W. Schenker" <anton4linux gmail com>]

On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 14:45 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:20:39 -0400, Krzysztof Adamski wrote:
> > I try to only use open source applications for my email reading, 
> > Evolution, K9 on Android and Pine on Linux over ssh.
> >
> > My point which you missed is that Evolution is not available
> > everywhere, and expecting everybody to be able to filter mail based
> > on
> > what is available in Evolution is unreasonable.
>
> Hi,
> you only care about yourself, try to see the whole situation for
> users
> of such MUAs.
>
> I for example use an iPad. The iPad doesn't provide sane filter to
> folder options. I decided against digest, because communication works
> much faster without the delay caused by collecting messages for the
> digest. To make it neat, the iPad's MUA collects the mails by thread
> related folders. If threading is broken, this doesn't work. Replies
> to
> digest tend to break the thread more often, than non-digest replies.
> To
> make a long story short, especially when using a tablet PC's or
> mobile
> phone's MUA without good filter to folder options, the thread is much
> more important, so digest is much more an issue for those MUAs and
> far
> away from being a solution to improve the workflow. By good sense,
> I've
> got no doubt, a minority of subscribers share your opinion, but also
> without doubts, most users don't. I'm not per se against digest, but
> you example is an argument con digest and not pro.
> Regards,
> Ralf 
Hi,
Once upon a time I too used email digests, but not for a long time now.
Even when I travel out of the city to the farm, the internet connection
is now fast enough to negate any advantages of a digest. I fail to
understand the difficulties of setting up separate mailboxes, (or mail
folders), on ANY platform, but I set up my mail filters server-side. I
use Evo on GNU+Linux and the open source K9-mail on my Android devices,
(telephones and tablets). K9-mail is wonderful in that it allows you to
designate mail folders as 1st class or 2nd class and only display the
ones that you desire. For example, I designate my work email folders as
class 1 and have them show up on all devices and my mailing lists as
class 2 (unless it is one of the lists that I really like), and only
have it show up on some devices. Naturally, all of the mail is
automatically sorted into the correct folders and inside of there, I
prefer if they are properly threaded, (and preferably *not* top posted,
although I have sadly given up on that...Thanks Microsoft Outlook and
Gmail and Yahoo mail).
Therefore, I would agree that elimating digests should not be a problem
for anyone. Thanks.
-- 
Anton Schenker 

Email 1:  anton4linux gmail com 

Email 2:  anton123s yahoo ca 

Website:  http://anton.publicvm.com 

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada



A: Because it messes up the reading order. 

Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? 

A: Top-posting. 

Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?



Reading a long email thread that uses "top-posting" is 

a recipe for turning you into a bobble-head. It's like 

reading the end of the book before the beginning.



Sent from my open source and freedom respecting 

GNU-Linux computer using Evolution Email.