natalian archives 2008 10 07

Marking up mail

Marking up email on the Web is not a pretty picture in 2008.

What I look like on a telecon

Notable mail archiving services:

Random thoughts:

Any other relevant RFCs, tools or tips I might have missed?

RFC 2822 has been superceded:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt

Comment by Buck 2008-10-08

Since you apparently use
ikiwiki, you might be interested in the mailbox plugin that I wrote

http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikimailbox.git;a=summary

I’ll be the first to admit that it is immature. But it is small (1.1 millimhonarc) and deals with threading. It could be somewhere to start.

Comment by David Bremner 2008-10-08
You might also be interested in another visualization experiment of mine: http://zesty.ca/threadmap/
Comment by Ping 2008-10-08

There’s also mod_mbox from apache:
http://httpd.apache.org/mod_mbox/

…which sucks (there’s no search, no way to link to a thread rather than a message, browsing from message view to its thread loses context, etc). For a while some of the projects there used eyebrowse:

http://eyebrowse.tigris.org/

…which sucks harder – mails kept going missing from its index before apache abandoned it.

Comment by Baz 2008-10-10

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