I'd like to be able to drop an unmodified RFC2822 email message into ikiwiki, and get it formatted to HTML. Something like this: <http://lwn.net/Articles/287056/>
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+> We're discussing doing just that (well, whole mailboxes, really) over in
+> [[comment_by_mail]] --[[Joey]]
+>> 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 (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]]