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+> I don't want to derail this with too much blue-skying, but I was thinking
+> earlier that it would be nice if ikiwiki could do something sensible with
+> mailbox files, such as turning them into a (threaded?) blog display.
+>
+> One reason I was thinking about that was just that it would be nice to
+> be able to use ikiwiki for mailing list archives. But another reason was
+> that it would be nice to solve the problem described in
+> [[discussion_page_as_blog]]. For that you really want a threaded system,
+> and mailbox file formats already have threading.
+>
+> If that were done, it would tie into what you're working on in an
+> interesting way, since the incoming mail would only need to be committed to
+> the appropriate mailbox file, with ikiwiki then running to process it.
+> --[[Joey]]
+>> It is an interesting idea. I like that it uses an arbitrary MUA
+>> as a "moderation" interface. One thing it made me think about is
+>> how to encode reference (threading) information. One can of
+>> course encode this into local-part, but I wonder if it would be
+>> better to use header features of mailto (this could also be an
+>> alternative to tagged mail addresses for page references).
+>> Various client handling of mailto always seemed a bit fragile to
+>> me but maybe I am just behind the times. Most headers are ignored, but
+>> pseudo-headers in the body might work. For example:
+>>[test](mailto:bremner@somewhere.ca?body=X-Iki-Page:%20test%0AX-Iki-thread:%20foobar). I hesitate to use the subject because every mail admin in the
+>> world seems to want to add things to the front of it.
+>> -- [[DavidBremner]]
+>>> Although it is in python, just from reading the Debian ITP, it
+>>> looks like
+>>> [mnemosyne-blog](http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/mnemosyne/)
+>>> might be an interesting backend to use or at least steal ideas
+>>> from :-) --[[David Bremner]]
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