1 TODO items for public-inbox
3 (Not in any particular order, and
4 performance, ease-of-setup, installation, maintainability, etc
5 all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
7 * general performance improvements, but without relying on
8 XS or compiled code any more than we currently do.
10 * mailmap support (same as git) for remapping expired email addresses
12 * POP3 server, since some webmail providers support external POP3:
13 https://public-inbox.org/meta/20160411034104.GA7817@dcvr.yhbt.net/
14 Perhaps make this depend solely the NNTP server and work as a proxy.
15 Meaning users can run this without needing a full copy of the
16 archives in a git repository.
18 * HTTP and NNTP proxy support. Allow us to be a frontend for
19 firewalled off (or Tor-exclusive) instances. The use case is
20 for offering a publically accessible IP with a cheap VPS,
21 yet storing large amounts of data on computers without a
22 public IP behind a home Internet connection.
24 * TLS support for various daemons (including STARTTLS for NNTP and POP3)
26 * NNTP COMPRESS extension (see innd)
28 * Combined "super server" for NNTP/HTTP/POP3 to reduce memory overhead
30 * Optional reply-to-list support for mirroring lists that want it :<
31 Reply-to-list encourages the existing list as a single-point-of-failure,
32 but having an extra mirror using public-inbox code is nice regardless.
34 * Optional reply-to-nobody for dead lists.
36 * Configurable linkification for per-inbox shorthands:
37 "$gmane/123456" could be configured to expand to the
38 appropriate link pointing to the gmane.org list archives,
39 likewise "[Bug #123456]" could be configured to expand to
40 point to some project's bug tracker at http://example.com/bug/123456
42 * Support optional "HTTPS Everywhere" for mapping old HTTP to HTTPS
43 links if (and only if) the user wants to use HTTPS. We may also
44 be able to configure redirects for expired URLs.
46 Note: message bodies rendered as HTML themselves must NOT change,
47 the links should point to an anchor tag within the same page,
48 instead; giving the user options.
50 * configurable constants (index limits, search results)
52 * handle messages with multiple Message-IDs (how?)
54 * handle broken double-bracketed References properly (maybe)
55 and totally broken Message-IDs
57 cf. https://public-inbox.org/git/20160814012706.GA18784@starla/
59 * portability to FreeBSD (and other Free Software *BSDs)
60 ugh... https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116615
61 (IO::KQueue is broken with Danga::Socket)
63 * improve documentation
65 * linkify thread skeletons better
66 https://public-inbox.org/git/6E3699DEA672430CAEA6DEFEDE6918F4@PhilipOakley/
68 * generate sample CSS for use with Stylish/dillo/etc
70 * streaming Email::MIME replacement: currently we generate many
71 allocations/strings for headers we never look at and slurp
72 entire message bodies into memory.
73 (this is pie-in-the-sky territory...)
75 * use REQUEST_URI properly for CGI / mod_perl2 compatibility
76 with Message-IDs which include '%' (done?)
78 * more and better test cases (use git fast-import to speed up creation)
80 * large mbox/Maildir/MH/NNTP spool import (see PublicInbox::Import)