ikiwiki/ todo/ comment by mail

I would like to allow comments on ikiwiki pages without CGI. I have in mind something like

Any comments? Write them here or send them to DavidBremner

I don't want to derail this with too much blue-skying, but I was thinking earlier that it would be nice if ikiwiki could do something sensible with mailbox files, such as turning them into a (threaded?) blog display.

One reason I was thinking about that was just that it would be nice to be able to use ikiwiki for mailing list archives. But another reason was that it would be nice to solve the problem described in discussion page as blog. For that you really want a threaded system, and mailbox file formats already have threading.

If that were done, it would tie into what you're working on in an interesting way, since the incoming mail would only need to be committed to the appropriate mailbox file, with ikiwiki then running to process it. --Joey

It is an interesting idea. I like that it uses an arbitrary MUA as a "moderation" interface. One thing it made me think about is how to encode reference (threading) information. One can of course encode this into local-part, but I wonder if it would be better to use header features of mailto (this could also be an alternative to tagged mail addresses for page references).
Various client handling of mailto always seemed a bit fragile to me but maybe I am just behind the times. Most headers are ignored, but pseudo-headers in the body might work. For example: test. I hesitate to use the subject because every mail admin in the world seems to want to add things to the front of it. -- DavidBremner