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@@ -2,11 +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]]
 
 > 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]]

 
 

->> I am going to start putting something simple together, but 
->> probably not too quickly.
->> So far I don't see a way to have ikiwiki process directories 
->> (i.e. maildirs or mh folders) as a single page.  This not that 
->> big of a deal, but it means that every mailbox will need 
->> something like \[[!mailbox type=maildir path=thedir]] in some  
->> "normal" (e.g. markdown) page -- [[DavidBremner]]
+> Your gitweb doesn't tell me where I can git pull this from, which I'd
+> like to do ... --[[Joey]]