I have a new SoftwareProduct, MailBag, up on my zope.org page: http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/Mailbag The intent of the product is to make it possible to catalog the [Zope] and [Zope-dev] archives so that I can search them using full text indexing -- Amos has/had a primitive version of this up on the 12080 port at www.zope.org, but I wanted to tackle a reasonable Python product for myself.

From the README:

Mailbag Readme This product packages a couple of Python classes for managing mail archives: **MailMessage** -- parses an RFC822-compliant message into headers and body; makes most commonly-used headers available as named properties. (Uses the Python rfc822 module to parse the message). **MailFolder** -- a simple, Folderish container for MailMessages. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

From the TODO list:

Mailbag ToDo's (0.01) Known Bugs * (none) Questions * My Zope Zen is missing on at least a couple of cylinders when it comes to making a "folderish" product in Python -- I don't understand *why* the code in MailFolder is working, where several previous incarnations didn't. Specifically, the meta_types and all_meta_types() of MailFolder seem to interfere with the global meta_types! Enhancements * Handle MIME / UUEncoded messages. * Optionally store the whichHeaders preference in a cookie (currently passed as a URL parameter). * Sample ZClient script for automatic load from MTA. * Cross-reference MailMessages to enable following threads. * Add method, threadList(), to MailFolder, enumerating top-level threads. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please have a look if this product might interest you -- I'd like a little preliminary feedback before kicking it out to the general Catalog. Also, if anyone feels sufficiently Zen enough, could somebody please post a lucid HowTo on creating Folderish products? (I guess I'm volunteering, only I need my Zen level raised a bit first). Thanks! -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com