Re: Archiving HTML mail

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:29:32PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > You have to rewrite the HTML parts anyway, to resolve RFC 2392 cid:
> > links, prior to handing them to web browsers.  I don't think web
> > browsers support them.  Neither over HTTP, nor browsing locally.
> 
> Yeah.  I guess it could be done on-the-fly at the WWW layer.
> Parsing HTML is crazy expensive, though :<

Someone I spoke with in recent past lamented that there is no mechanism 
to properly render markdown-formatted emails. I wonder if that's 
something that can be snuck in on the public-inbox level. :) Most email 
is already properly formatted markdown (paragraphs and blockquotes), so 
it's not *that* crazy of an idea.

Just an off-the-cuff remark.

> Fwiw, the admins of that server do get the original HTML messages
> in ~/.public-inbox/emergency/ (or whatever PI_EMERGENCY is).
> 
> emergency/ could be considered a "moderation queue" so the
> admins could send personalized replies to legitimate senders who
> got rejected.  Such a message could be easier-to-digest than
> whatever postfix sends, even with the PublicInbox::Filter::Base
> rejection message.

Now that public-inbox-mda supports list-id (THANK YOU!), my life 
moderating PI_EMERGENCY is much easier. For lore.kernel.org, emergency 
collects about a thousand messages a week. My Friday afternoon routine 
is usually to fire mutt, delete spam, and re-feed the remainder to 
public-inbox-mda with --no-precheck.

-K