public-inbox - an "archives first" approach to mailing lists
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public-inbox implements the sharing of an email inbox via git to
-complement or replace traditional mailing lists.
+complement or replace traditional mailing lists. Readers may
+subscribe to a mailing list using ssoma[1] (a git-wrapper) to
+import email from a git repository into an IMAP folder, Maildir,
+or mbox. Readers may also read via Atom feeds and HTML archives.
public-inbox spawned around three main ideas:
* Publically accessible and archived communication is essential to
Free and Open Source development.
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* Contributing to Free and Open Source projects should not require the
use of non-Free/non-Open Source services or software.
-
* Graphical user interfaces should not be required for text-based
communication.
public-inbox aims to be easy-to-deploy and manage; encouraging projects
to run their own instances with minimal overhead.
-Features
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-* anybody may participate via plain-text email
-* stores email in git, readers have a complete archive of the inbox
-* Atom feed allows casual readers to follow via feed reader
-* Mail user-agent (MUA) users may use Maildir, mbox(5) and/or IMAP locally
-* uses only well-documented and easy-to-implement data formats
-
Implementation
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public-inbox uses ssoma[1], Some Sort Of Mail Archiver which implements
_Anybody_ may also setup a delivery-only mailing list server to replay
a public-inbox git archive to subscribers via SMTP.
-[1] http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/README
+[1] http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/
+
+Features
+--------
+* anybody may participate via plain-text email
+* stores email in git, readers have a complete archive of the inbox
+* Atom feed allows casual readers to follow via feed reader
+* Mail user-agent (MUA) users may use Maildir, mbox(5) and/or IMAP locally
+* uses only well-documented and easy-to-implement data formats
+
+Try it out now, see http://try.public-inbox.org/
Requirements (Atom, read-only client)
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Requirements (participant)
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-* ssoma - http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/INSTALL
+* ssoma - http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/
* any MUA which may send text-only emails ("git send-email" works!)
* participants do not need to install public-inbox, only server admins
Requirements (server)
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-See INSTALL
+See http://public-inbox.org/INSTALL
Hacking
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Source code is available via git:
- git clone git://bogomips.org/public-inbox
+ git clone git://80x24.org/public-inbox
See below for contact info.
You may subscribe via ssoma(1), LISTNAME is a name of your choosing:
- URL=git://git.public-inbox.org/public-inbox
+ URL=git://public-inbox.org/meta
LISTNAME=public-inbox
# to initialize a maildir (this may be a new or existing maildir,
# your MUA may modify and delete messages from the maildir or mbox,
# this does not affect ssoma functionality at all
- # to sync all your ssoma subscriptions
- ssoma sync
+ # to sync all your ssoma subscriptions via cronjob
+ ssoma sync --cron
+
+HTML inbox archives are available: http://public-inbox.org/meta/
Anti-Spam
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Copyright
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-Copyright 2013, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> and all contributors.
+Copyright 2013-2015 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
License: AGPLv3 or later <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify