Applescript to burst mailing list digests
Burst MIME digest, an AppleScript for Mail.app, will take one or more selected MIME digest messages (multipart/digest - see RFC2046 
) and extract the individual messages from the digest message. This is especially useful if you are subscribed to a mailing list in digest format but want to reply to a single message in the digest rather than the digest message itself.
The individual messages will be moved to the same mailbox as the original digest message and the temporary Import folder will be deleted (note that the root “Import” folder currently cannot be deleted due to a bug in Mail’s AppleScript implementation). When running the script for the first time, the user can choose whether or not to delete the original digest message upon successful extraction of the individual messages.
The script was originally created by Andy Fragen and then polished by Andreas Amann. You can get it from Andreas’ web site .
UPDATE: Andreas has updated the script. It can now handle digest messages formatted as either multipart/digest (MIME digest) according to RFC2046 or simple digest as defined by RFC1153 .)
[Note: I nicked the description of this script almost word-for-word from Andreas' site. Idle. Shameful. Grateful.]
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October 17th, 2006 at 1:32 am
Tim,
Just a note to let you know that Andreas has up’d the ante and now has modified the script so that it bursts both MIME (RFC2046) and non-MIME (RFC1153) type digests.
It’s still in testing but so far works great. Stay tuned. Andreas is planning on posting it when it’s finished.
October 17th, 2006 at 2:36 am
Yeah, talk about bad timing - I was thinking about releasing the new version in the next few days (there already are some changes to the version Andy is testing) ;-)
I also plan to change the description a little bit so you won’t have to come up with a new description next time…
October 17th, 2006 at 7:05 am
Good news on the description front ;-) (Seriously, thanks for the leg up on that one. I hope you don’t mind too much).
If you or Andy could let me know when the updated version is live, that would be great.
October 17th, 2006 at 8:05 am
Tim,
I’m sure one of us will give you a heads up.
Andy