I'm looking for something that will allow me to view mail as web pages but I'm not after webmail, I'll try and explain....
I want to be able to incorporate sequences of mail (saved as maildir mailboxes) into a web site so that one can quickly look through an E-Mail 'conversation' via the web. As I said the E-Mail is already at in maildir mailboxes on the system where the apache server is running so the files are accessible, all I really want is a vaguely civilised interface that I can link to from other pages.
For example the link might look something like:-
http://home.isbd.net/email.php&Mail:boating:leBoat
where email.php is the clever E-Mail reading bit and "Mail:boating:leBoat" is the path down through the mail hierarchy to the mailbox I want to show. Ideally you'd see a clickable list of E-Mails from the mailbox.
Any ideas or places to look for such a thing (or bits to make it) would be most welcome.
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 18:36 +0000, Chris G wrote:
I'm looking for something that will allow me to view mail as web pages but I'm not after webmail, I'll try and explain....
Interface wise this sounds very similar to what many mailing lists do with their archives. I note you want something that can work with the e-mail as it is rather than pre-converted to HTML. I don't know how many of the HTML list archives systems work that way - as a minimum you may need to pre-build some indexes.
One name that springs to mind is pipermail. Other than that I'd look round some mailing lists to and see if they use something you like the look of.
Steve.
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:57:06AM +0000, Steve Fosdick wrote:
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 18:36 +0000, Chris G wrote:
I'm looking for something that will allow me to view mail as web pages but I'm not after webmail, I'll try and explain....
Interface wise this sounds very similar to what many mailing lists do with their archives. I note you want something that can work with the e-mail as it is rather than pre-converted to HTML. I don't know how many of the HTML list archives systems work that way - as a minimum you may need to pre-build some indexes.
One name that springs to mind is pipermail. Other than that I'd look round some mailing lists to and see if they use something you like the look of.
Thanks for the ideas, you're right, mailing list archives might well do what I want.
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