Allow viewing emails from a mailing list in the timeline

[davidf@…]

It would be very useful to track development discussion to be able to have emails on a certain list or on a certain topic viewed (just minimal summary - time, sender, subject, perhaps a fragment on text) as part of the TracTimeline, with links to the archived email (using mailman etc)

[Emmanuel Blot]

It looks like as a good candidate for a plugin

As Trac won't implement it's own ML engine, this feature would probably rely on a third party ML engine and be somewhat dedicated to this engine, hence a plugin implementation.

Propose as wontfix; you can add this feature request to the 'request-a-hack' list on ​http://trac-hacks.org once it is up-and-running again (mid of October '07).

[sid]

Interesting idea, but also agreed that this would work better as a plugin. +1 for wontfix resolution.

[Christian Boos]

… and what about a duplicate resolution? See #3140 :-)

[Emmanuel Blot]

I don't think it is a duplicate of #3140, as I understand this ticket as a timeline view of a mailing list events, where as #3140 is a request for Mailing List support within Trac.

Anyway, duplicate or wontfix, Trac core won't integrate some kind of Mailing List engine.

[Christian Boos]

Well, both tickets approach the same thing from different perspectives: how Trac can be better integrated with mailing lists, as a lot of development discussion also happen there.

So this ticket is more focused about the "advertising" of new emails by the way of timeline events, with a link to the archived email, whereas #3140 is a bit more focused on making the content of the mail directly available into Trac (eventually with some level of wiki rendering of the content, so that quoting and TracLinks get recognized).

I think an E-mail archive plugin for Trac should do both, hence the redirection to #3140. And the DrProject module for mail integration does indeed both (see ​mail/web_ui.py and ​mail/templates/mail_view.html).

[anonymous]

Agreed, this belongs in a plugin and should tie in with #3140. It seems like such a plugin would be fairly feasible to write, perhaps through subscribing an email address to the list that passes the messages to trac. I might try it and will report progress in #3140 if I get around to it :-)