Annotation of hypermess/hypermail/TODO, revision 1.5
1.1 kahan 1: This is a file of things to do. If you have other ideas or needs send
1.5 ! fumi 2: them to hypermail-dev@hypermail.org.
1.1 kahan 3:
4: ===============
5: General Things:
6: ===============
7:
1.5 ! fumi 8: - Need to use splint to clean up the code.
! 9:
! 10: - Need to clean up the code and remove old code that is commented/ifdefed out.
! 11:
! 12: - Update the doc files to assure all configuration file directives
! 13: are included appropriately in the documentation. Currently the
! 14: documentation does not completely list all options.
! 15:
! 16: - Update the pcre library to a much more recent version.
! 17:
! 18: - Modify configure to locate the appropriate htdocs directory locations
! 19: for installing the documentation and image files.
! 20:
! 21: - Add the msgid hash to the emailinfo structure to speed-up looking
! 22: of this value when we already know it.
! 23:
! 24: - Finish the libtool work on the fnv library so that we can link to
! 25: shared libraries _and_ install/uninstall them.
! 26:
! 27: - Need to lowercase HTML tags to support XHTML 1.0 in the future.
! 28:
! 29: - Need to add XHTML support - Configurable ?
! 30:
1.1 kahan 31: - Make the "New List Message" and "Reply To List" features available
32: when usetable == 0
33:
1.5 ! fumi 34: - system() should be replaced by fork()+execvp() (or maybe by s_popen())
! 35: in archive/ mbox2hypermail.c
! 36:
! 37: - HTML code should be escaped where appropriate.
! 38:
1.1 kahan 39: - Make it possible to insert the FONT to use in the tables.
40: <TH><FONT ...>string</FONT></TH>
41: Fonts are not be inherited correctly in many browsers.
42:
43: - Have configure look at the language selected and if it is not "en"
44: set the EURODATE to 1.
45:
46: - Add date/subject/author filters for articles that are read in
47:
48: - Need to create a library of hypermail functions so that other utilities
49: can be generated without making things real ugly. (i.e. removal, other
50: indexing.)
51:
52: - Combine mbox2hypermail.c and msg2archive.c into a single program instead
53: of having the two do the same general job...
54:
55: - There is an irreversible aspect to piping messages into hypermail;
56: what gets written into HTML does not readily convert back to RFC822
57: form such that it could be re-archived (put in another archive, etc.)
58:
1.3 kahan 59: - Convert the doc files to a SGML system like linuxdoc, which will allow
60: generating html, text, and man pages from the same source.
61:
1.5 ! fumi 62: - You currently look for text in messages of the form http://... and
! 63: turn them into hyperlinks. You also look for text in the form
! 64: foo@bar.com and turn that into a mailto: hyperlink.
! 65: I suggest you also look for text in for form of
! 66: mailto:foo@bar.com?subject=bat and turn the whole of it into a
! 67: mailto: link, with the correct subject line.
! 68:
1.1 kahan 69: =============
70: Index Issues:
71: =============
72:
73: - Make the formating of index pages use magic cookies for all parts of the
74: page.
75:
76: - It seems strange and undesireable to have the message date shown only in
77: the subject and author indexes. It seems *really* strange to not have it
78: show up in the date index! I wanted it "on" for our archives, and did
79: that in my latest beta, which required changing the "reply" structure to
80: include it (for the thread index). I think ideally it would be configureable
81: on or off.
82:
83: - Make it optional that a site generate index files with the listings
84: sorted by date in one file and reverse sorted in the other index.
85: This pertains to all index types as well. For example:
86: one thread-index with the newest mails topmost
87: one thread-index with the oldest mails topmost
88: one author-index in alphabetical order
89: one author-index in reversed alphabetical or
90: etc.
91:
92: ============
93: Attachments:
94: ============
95:
96: o Make it configurable to get test/plain attachments to have a link
97: created for them, instead of having them printed out beneath the
98: original email.
99:
100: o If a filename is not known and the MIME type is known, the proper
101: extension should be added to the randomly generated file name.
102:
103: o For security reasons, *all* binary attachments should be
104: written to disk with file permissions of 444 or equivalent
105: read-only access and should *never* allowed to be executable.
106:
107: o The user should be able to 1 indicate if attachments are stored to
108: be stored as separate files from the original message.
109: (Turn it on or off.)
110:
111: o Specifying a list with 'preferred' content-types when
112: receiving/decoding mixed/alternative attachments. Support is there
113: in the config file but not in the code. Currently the "text" is always
114: preferred.
115:
116: o It is doubtful that hypermail deals with all kinds of uuencoded
117: attachments as defined with 'x-uue' in the current hypermail. Other
118: MIME resources mention a whole set of different names for this kind
119: of encoding, but are they in use?
120:
121: o Hypermail should be able to deal with Sun's (silly) mailtool
122: attachments in a manner similar to how it deals with mime attachments.
123: It would be really cool if the output would be identical and the
124: differences hidden from the user(s).
125:
1.5 ! fumi 126: =================
! 127: Configure issues
! 128: =================
! 129:
! 130: Defines not used in config.h.in:
! 131: HAVE_STRFTIME, HAVE_GETOPT, HAVE_GETPWUID, HAVE_LSTAT,
! 132: HAVE_MKDIR, HAVE_STRCASECMP, HAVE_STRDUP, HAVE_STRSTR, HAVE_STRTOL,
! 133: HAVE_ALLOCA_H, HAVE_ARPA_INET_H, HAVE_MALLOC_H, HAVE_NDIR_H ,
! 134: HAVE_NETDB_H, HAVE_NETINET_IN_H, HAVE_STDARG_H, HAVE_STDIO_H,
! 135: HAVE_SYS_DIR_H, HAVE_SYS_NDIR_H , HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H, HAVE_TIME_H
! 136:
! 137: HAVE_BCOPY is only used in in pcre and not hypermail sources.
! 138:
! 139: Configure needs to support SunOS4x.
! 140:
! 141: Change prototype definitions for certain systems (FREBSD 4.6 for example)
1.1 kahan 142:
1.3 kahan 143: ============
144: Misc. Needs:
145: ============
1.1 kahan 146:
147: - EURODATE
148: Given that these two formats are ambiguous, and many companies have
149: people of both sorts, need an alternate, unambigous date format.
150:
151: - Should recognize and parse indented HTML tags better
152:
153: - Don't ignore umask - HM_UMASK variable?
154:
155: - A better icon for hypermail!
156:
1.2 kahan 157: - Ability to check for duplicate message IDs using cksum
158: to assure that duplicate message are infact truely duplicated
159: and not just a different message with the same msg-id header.
1.1 kahan 160:
161: - Ability to refer to articles via message ID as well
162:
163: - The ability to cap the archive to X most recent messages
164:
165: - Allow for multiple mailbox formats to be recognized, like news articles,
166: listproc, elm mailboxes, etc.
167:
168: - In parsing header fields, check for extra spaces, tabs, etc.
169:
170: - Check for zero-length headers
171:
172: - Search for "HTTP" and "http" when making links
173:
174: - Parse archives with only one or zero messages
175:
176: - Make sure "sort by..." groups all messages in same thread
177:
178: - Add sort by "in reply to" as well
179:
180: =============================
181: Administrative Things to do:
182: =============================
183:
184: o Get a good set of test files. For now you can use your own...
185:
186: o Get to develop a complete regression test suite
187:
1.4 kahan 188: ===========================
189: :Requests:
190: ===========================
191:
192: * Do you know if there is any way to cutomize the index sort of Hypermail?
193: I am using Solaris mailbox and the header field can be modified by user
194: (i.e. add more headers if required). However, the default index sort of
195: Hypermail only support Author, Thread and Subject. Is there any way to
196: customize the index sort of Hypermail so that we can map the UNIX mail
197: to HTML mail with cutomize headers.
198:
199: * Would like to see a reindex option. Would like to remove a message from
200: the mailbox and click on reindex to delete the message.
201:
202: * There should be an option I can set in the Hypermail command to cause it
203: to write html files as a specified user. Right now Hypermail is writing
204: files as daemon and this is causing problems. We'd prefer that it run as
205: something/someone else.
206:
1.5 ! fumi 207: * One more: I still think that hypermail should also save the
! 208: full mail body part additionally, when there is an OpenPGP(PGP/MIME
! 209: rfc2015) signed Mail. If we do it first, maybe somebody enhances a
! 210: webbrowser to take advantage of it. Would be cool, if it could check
! 211: the signature then.
! 212:
! 213: * It would be nice to be able to throttle hypermail. Could we add a
! 214: config option that would allow hypermail to renice itself ?
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