1 ssoma - some sort of mail archiver
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4 WARNING: ssoma will not be updated for public-inbox v2 repositories.
5 Nowadays, public-inbox has NNTP support which makes ssoma redundant.
7 ssoma is a git-based mail archiver and transport. Email is injected via
8 ssoma-mda(1) (MDA: mail delivery agent) on a server and may be shared
9 (via git) and extracted to mbox, Maildir, or IMAP via ssoma(1). ssoma
10 existed primarily as the mechanism (not policy) for public-inbox v1.
14 * stores email in git, so readers have a full history of the mailing list
15 * mail user-agent (MUA) users may choose from IMAP, mbox(5), and Maildir
16 * uses only well-documented and easy-to-implement data formats
20 Installation should be easy and require only a few, commonly-available
21 packages. See http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/INSTALL for details.
25 Source code is available via git:
27 git clone git://80x24.org/ssoma
29 See below for contact info.
33 We are happy to see feedback of all types via plain-text email.
34 Please email comments, user/developer discussion, patches, bug reports,
35 and pull requests to the public-inbox discussion list at:
39 Please Cc: all recipients when replying (this is not a requirement of
40 public-inbox or ssoma, but a good idea since we do not require
41 subscription). This also makes it easier to rope in folks of
42 tangentially related projects we depend on (e.g. git developers on
45 You can subscribe via ssoma, LISTNAME is a name of your choosing:
47 URL=git://public-inbox.org/meta
50 # to initialize a maildir (this may be a new or existing maildir,
51 # ssoma will not touch existing messages)
52 # If you prefer mbox, use mbox:/path/to/mbox as the last argument
53 ssoma add $LISTNAME $URL maildir:/path/to/maildir
55 # read with your favorite MUA (only using mutt as an example)
56 mutt -f /path/to/maildir # (or /path/to/mbox)
58 # to keep your mbox or maildir up-to-date, periodically run the following:
61 # your MUA may modify and delete messages from the maildir or mbox,
62 # this does not affect ssoma functionality at all
64 # to sync all your ssoma subscriptions
67 # You may wish to sync in your cronjob
70 Mail repository format
71 ----------------------
72 If you are uncomfortable running code in ssoma for any reason and
73 would rather read directly from the git repository, the following
74 document describes it:
76 http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/ssoma_repository.txt
78 Again, note that this DOES NOT cover the public-inbox v2 repository
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