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@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@ 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]]
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->> 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]]
+>> If you like to read code, you can have a gander at the
+>> [mailbox](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikimailbox.git;a=summary)
+>> plugin. At the moment, it reads all of the messages in a maildir and passes them through
+>> a template of your choice. Kinda acts like `cat` at the moment because none of the
+>> css is defined yet. Next missions are threading (Email::Thread?) and filtering of headers.
+>> also, do something to preserve the bodies of the mail messages. Maybe with Text::Quoted. Or just < pre> :-)
+>> To see the (unsurprising) syntax, look at [a trivial example markdown file](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikimailbox.git;a=blob;f=test/in/index.mdwn;hb=HEAD)