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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]]

If you like to read code, you can have a gander at the mailbox 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