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/
15 * TLS support for various daemons (including STARTTLS for NNTP and POP3)
17 * Unix socket support for HTTP and POP3 server for use behind reverse
20 * Combined "super server" for NNTP/HTTP/POP3 to reduce memory overhead
22 * Optional reply-to-list support for mirroring lists that want it :<
23 Reply-to-list encourages the existing list as a single-point-of-failure,
24 but having an extra mirror using public-inbox code is nice regardless.
26 * Configurable linkification for per-inbox shorthands:
27 "$gmane/123456" could be configured to expand to the
28 appropriate link pointing to the gmane.org list archives,
29 likewise "[Bug #123456]" could be configured to expand to
30 point to some project's bug tracker at http://example.com/bug/123456
32 * Support optional "HTTPS Everywhere" for mapping old HTTP to HTTPS
33 links if (and only if) the user wants to use HTTPS. We may also
34 be able to configure redirects for expired URLs.
36 Note: message bodies rendered as HTML themselves must NOT change,
37 the links should point to an anchor tag within the same page,
38 instead; giving the user options.
40 * implement RFC 4685 (Atom message threading)
42 * configurable constants (index limits, search results)
44 * use tags as date-based skiplists for navigating history
45 (maybe not needed with Xapian support nowadays?)
47 * handle Xapian date range queries:
48 http://mid.gmane.org/20151005222157.GE5880@survex.com
50 * handle messages with multiple Message-IDs
52 * handle broken double-bracketed References properly (maybe)
53 and totally broken Message-IDs
55 cf. https://public-inbox.org/git/20160814012706.GA18784@starla/
57 * portability to FreeBSD (and other Free Software *BSDs)
58 ugh... https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116615
60 * documentation (pod/text)
62 * linkify thread skeletons better
63 https://public-inbox.org/git/6E3699DEA672430CAEA6DEFEDE6918F4@PhilipOakley/
65 * generate sample CSS for use with Stylish/dillo/etc
67 * builtin-help for search engine syntax
69 * streaming Email::MIME replacement: currently we generate many
70 allocations/strings for headers we never look at and slurp
71 entire message bodies into memory.
72 (this is pie-in-the-sky territory...)
74 * use REQUEST_URI properly for CGI / mod_perl2 compatibility
75 with Message-IDs which include '%' (done?)
77 * more test cases (use git fast-import to speed up creation)
79 * large mbox/Maildir/MH/NNTP spool import (use git fast-import)