A digest is a message
that contains other messages. Special MH-E commands let you read
digests conveniently. You can use <SPC> and <BS> to
page through the digest as if it were a normal message, but if
you wish to skip to the next message in the digest, use D
<SPC> (mh-page-digest). To return to a
previous message, use D <BS>
(mh-page-digest-backwards).
Another handy command is D b
(mh-burst-digest). This command uses the MH command
burst1 to break
out each message in the digest into its own message. Using this
command, you can quickly delete unwanted messages, like this:
Once the digest is split up, toggle out of MH-Folder Show mode
with t (see Folders) so that the scan lines fill
the screen and messages aren't displayed. Then use d
(see Reading Mail)
to quickly delete messages that you don't want to read (based on
the ‘Subject:’
header field). You can also burst the digest to reply directly to
the people who posted the messages in the digest. One problem you
may encounter is that the ‘From:’ header fields are preceded with
a ‘>’ so
that your reply can't create the ‘To:’ field correctly. In this case,
you must correct the ‘To:’ field yourself. This is described
later (see Editing
Drafts).