Request review for my comments branch

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / mbox.mdwn

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@@ -2,9 +2,18 @@ I'd like to be able to drop an unmodified RFC2822 email message into ikiwiki, an
 
 > We're discussing doing just that (well, whole mailboxes, really) over in
 > [[comment_by_mail]] --[[Joey]]
->> If you like to read code, you can have a gander at the 
+>> The 
 >> [mailbox](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikimailbox.git;a=summary) 
->> plugin.  At the moment, it reads all of the messages in a maildir and passes them through 
->> a template of your choice.  Kinda acts like `cat` at the moment because none of the 
->> css is defined yet.  Next missions are threading (Email::Thread?), and maybe some simple css. 
->> To see the (unsurprising) syntax, look at [a trivial example markdown file](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikimailbox.git;a=blob;f=test/in/index.mdwn;hb=HEAD)
+>> plugin is roughly feature complete at this point.  It can read mbox, maildir, and
+>> MH folders, does threading, and deals with MIME (now with 
+>> pagespec based sanity checking).  No doubt lots of things could be 
+>> be improved, and it hasn't been tested a great deal. Formatting of the body could be attempted
+>> as well. -- [[DavidBremner]]
+>>> One hitch I noticed was that it is not currently possible to treat a maildir
+>>> or an MH directory as a page (i.e. just call it foo.mh and have it transformed 
+>>> to page foo). I'm not sure if this is possible and worthwhile to fix. 
+>>  It is certainly workable
+>>> to use a \[[!mailbox ]] directive. -- [[DavidBremner]]
+
+> Your gitweb doesn't tell me where I can git pull this from, which I'd
+> like to do ... --[[Joey]]