From: Joey Hess Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:50:48 +0000 (-0400) Subject: idea X-Git-Tag: 2.51~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/9c41769673544dee1fd2a822b17b3df3aa6c90e8?ds=inline;hp=--cc idea --- 9c41769673544dee1fd2a822b17b3df3aa6c90e8 diff --git a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn index b153ca24c..4ed08e929 100644 --- a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn @@ -36,3 +36,17 @@ I have in mind something like Any comments? Write them here or send them to [[DavidBremner]] +> 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]]