wondering if there is a way to receive a digest (daily), vs. individual emails? i ask mainly because we recently switched over to lamson at pyjs.org (from google groups), and some users are well... complaining :-) i believe we are using the librelist code as a template. question is relevant for anyone on librelist as well; didn't see the answer anywhere. C Anthony
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 05:44:31PM -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > wondering if there is a way to receive a digest (daily), vs. individual emails? > > i ask mainly because we recently switched over to lamson at pyjs.org > (from google groups), and some users are well... complaining :-) Nope, they should get with the future and learn to sort their mail. :-) Digest mode is really annoying. Typically people use it instead of checking the archives to lurk on a list. For that we have archives now so there's no point. The other 1% of idiots actually *reply* with a digest, which makes conversation threads break, confuses everyone else, and just screws up the general feel of the list. It's absolutely retarded given the amount of email infrastructure available for sorting and categorizing email in the client. > i believe we are using the librelist code as a template. question is > relevant for anyone on librelist as well; didn't see the answer > anywhere. If you want to implement it, it's not too hard, just annoying. You'd have to divide people up by who gets digest or not. Then, have a cron that runs daily and sends the digest to people. To do the digest just look in the archive maildir for that day, pack up the mails, send them on. Very easy. -- Zed A. Shaw http://zedshaw.com/
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 05:44:31PM -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> wondering if there is a way to receive a digest (daily), vs. individual emails? >> >> i ask mainly because we recently switched over to lamson at pyjs.org >> (from google groups), and some users are well... complaining :-) > > Nope, they should get with the future and learn to sort their mail. :-) > > Digest mode is really annoying. Typically people use it instead of > checking the archives to lurk on a list. For that we have archives now > so there's no point. The other 1% of idiots actually *reply* with a > digest, which makes conversation threads break, confuses everyone else, > and just screws up the general feel of the list. It's absolutely > retarded given the amount of email infrastructure available for sorting > and categorizing email in the client. > >> i believe we are using the librelist code as a template. question is >> relevant for anyone on librelist as well; didn't see the answer >> anywhere. > > If you want to implement it, it's not too hard, just annoying. You'd > have to divide people up by who gets digest or not. Then, have a cron > that runs daily and sends the digest to people. To do the digest just > look in the archive maildir for that day, pack up the mails, send them > on. Very easy. thanks, zed C Anthony