[Gllug] Threaded email clients

[Simon Morris]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 16:23 +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote:
> 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?

True - it is somewhat duplicating functionality but being able to
provide the MUA with a folder and saying "dump this thread in there"
would be several less clicks than MUA -> mbox -> HTML

Evolution is a behemoth anyway :)

~sm 
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