1 ssoma - some sort of mail archiver
2 ----------------------------------
3 ssoma is a git-based mail archiver and transport. Email is injected via
4 ssoma-mda(1) (MDA: mail delivery agent) on a server and may be shared
5 (via git) and extracted to mbox, Maildir, or IMAP via ssoma(1). ssoma
6 exists primarily as the mechanism (not policy) for public-inbox but may
7 easily be used for other projects.
9 Readers of public-inbox instances may install ssoma to extract messages
10 into their favorite mail client for reading.
12 See http://public-inbox.org/ for more information on how ssoma is used.
16 * stores email in git, so readers have a full history of the mailing list
17 * mail user-agent (MUA) users may choose from IMAP, mbox(5), and Maildir
18 * uses only well-documented and easy-to-implement data formats
22 Installation should be easy and require only a few, commonly-available
23 packages. See http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/INSTALL for details.
27 Source code is available via git:
29 git clone git://80x24.org/ssoma
31 See below for contact info.
35 We are happy to see feedback of all types via plain-text email.
36 Please email comments, user/developer discussion, patches, bug reports,
37 and pull requests to the public-inbox discussion list at:
41 Please Cc: all recipients when replying (this is not a requirement of
42 public-inbox or ssoma, but a good idea since we do not require
43 subscription). This also makes it easier to rope in folks of
44 tangentially related projects we depend on (e.g. git developers on
47 You can subscribe via ssoma, LISTNAME is a name of your choosing:
49 URL=git://public-inbox.org/meta
52 # to initialize a maildir (this may be a new or existing maildir,
53 # ssoma will not touch existing messages)
54 # If you prefer mbox, use mbox:/path/to/mbox as the last argument
55 ssoma add $LISTNAME $URL maildir:/path/to/maildir
57 # read with your favorite MUA (only using mutt as an example)
58 mutt -f /path/to/maildir # (or /path/to/mbox)
60 # to keep your mbox or maildir up-to-date, periodically run the following:
63 # your MUA may modify and delete messages from the maildir or mbox,
64 # this does not affect ssoma functionality at all
66 # to sync all your ssoma subscriptions
69 # You may wish to sync in your cronjob
72 Mail repository format
73 ----------------------
74 If you are uncomfortable running code in ssoma for any reason and
75 would rather read directly from the git repository, the following
76 document describes it:
78 http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/ssoma_repository.txt
82 Copyright 2013, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> and all contributors.
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