[Gllug] Threaded email clients

Joel Bernstein joel at fysh.org
Wed Sep 7 15:23:37 UTC 2005


On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:11:20PM +0100, Simon Morris wrote:
> It just occured to me that a good feature of a mail client would be to
> create a "mailing list style HTML archive" export function so you could
> export a whole thread of emails for other people to browse and keep on a
> web server somewhere.
> 
> I might submit a request to Evolution for it.

But ... why would you reinvent that wheel? Your email client will
happily export your mail to an mbox. There are several mbox to
web-accessible email archive tools around. Why on earth would you need
to build the functionality into your MUA?

/joel
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug




More information about the GLLUG mailing list