On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 02:02:50AM +0200, Thomas Oltmann wrote: > Hi Hiltjo, > > thanks for the feedback. > > > In general the points look good to me. I haven't looked at the code. > > > > I think we can ignore some cruft. HTML mail should be avoided, atleast on > > suckless. > > > > Supporting nested threads are a must though (imho). > Fair enough. > > > Right now there are multiple views (by date, thread etc). I'd like to keep > > these options. > I agree. As long as we can draw the line at 'sort by: attachment', > which I still haven't figured out why one might want. > > > For parsing mail, maybe mblaze or parts of that code can be reused too: > > https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze > I wasn't aware of mblaze, but from what I can tell it would definitely > be a viable option, yes. > > Btw, I've thought of another plus for a homegrown archiver: > In addition to HTML, we could also output Gopher pages. > I reckon all it would take is implementing a second set of formatting > routines. >
Support for Gopher or other formatting routines would be very nice. Support for a RSS/Atom feed of the archive (just from new to old) would be nice too. It would be fine if it first only supported HTML, but writing the code in a way that supports formatting. Thanks, -- Kind regards, Hiltjo
