In answer to the questions both you and Graham asked over on HQ-RPG, when I said my E-Mail program handled the Majordomo digests better than the others it was because the way it handled the (non-Mime) GD was in the way you also found it - one long post containing all the messages sequentially.
I have switched over to Mime (I'm not even sure I was aware it was an option as all the subscriptions were handled automatically (which was a good thing by the way, please don't think I am complaining about it!) - but even if I had been, I would probably have chosen "not Mime" for the reasons Graham outlined earlier (avoiding HTML and other unpleasant attachments).
I use Turnpike as a mail/News reader, but I am on old version (4.02 - dating back to 1999) largely because it was the last version Demon supplied free on CD to subscribers - Version 5 was a download only (in the days when I paid for connect time, and didn't have a CD burner to enable a backup to be taken easily) and version 6 (the latest of which I am aware) has completly overhauled the interface to make it a Windows Explorer extension. (The logic being, I believe that this makes it easier to support on all existing and future Windows platforms, as well as making it "standard" for new customers))
Having switched to Mime-enabled the Digest now "works" for me like it used to under Majordomo - Each individual message is prefaced with a set of buttons (Header, Reply, Forward, Export, Hide, Next Part and Previous) the use of which should be fairly obvious ;) - actually, I've just realised the one improvement is that "Reply" (which just brings up the current message in the reply window rather than the whole digest) now defaults to replying to the digest rather than the individual poster. The only drawback is that you can't select just a subset of the message to copy into the reply window as you can with non-mime messages.
The (minor and liveable with) downside is that the "header" section for each message) (which Turnpike neatly hides away unless you press the "header" button) is much larger and appears if/when I read the message through Demon's Webmail Interface or if I export the whole digest to a flat file to read away from this PC.
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