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 burst20 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 Organizing Your Mail with Folders) so that the scan lines fill the screen
and messages aren’t displayed. Then use d (see Reading Your 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 a Draft).