How I accomplished this and where I'd like to take it

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@@ -5,8 +5,12 @@ I'd like to be able to drop an unmodified RFC2822 email message into ikiwiki, an
 >> The 
 >> [mailbox](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikimailbox.git;a=summary) 
 >> plugin is roughly feature complete at this point.  It can read mbox, maildir, and
 >> The 
 >> [mailbox](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikimailbox.git;a=summary) 
 >> plugin is roughly feature complete at this point.  It can read mbox, maildir, and

->> MH folders, does threading, and deals with MIME. Well, blindly decodes and copies 
->> to ikiwiki all of 
->> the MIME parts. Some sanity checking is clearly needed.    No doubt lots of things could be 
+>> 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]]
 >> 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]]