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I'd like to be able to drop an unmodified RFC2822 email message into ikiwiki, and get it formatted to HTML. Something like this: <http://lwn.net/Articles/287056/>

> 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]]

> Your gitweb doesn't tell me where I can git pull this from, which I'd
> like to do ... --[[Joey]]