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

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@@ -2,3 +2,10 @@ 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 
+>> [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 filtering of headers. 
+>> also, do something to preserve the bodies of the mail messages. Maybe with Text::Quoted. Or just < pre> :-)
+>> 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)