ssoma - some sort of mail archiver
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WARNING: ssoma will not be updated for public-inbox v2 repositories.
Nowadays, public-inbox has NNTP support which makes ssoma redundant.

ssoma is a git-based mail archiver and transport.  Email is injected via
ssoma-mda(1) (MDA: mail delivery agent) on a server and may be shared
(via git) and extracted to mbox, Maildir, or IMAP via ssoma(1).  ssoma
existed primarily as the mechanism (not policy) for public-inbox v1.

Features
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* stores email in git, so readers have a full history of the mailing list
* mail user-agent (MUA) users may choose from IMAP, mbox(5), and Maildir
* uses only well-documented and easy-to-implement data formats

Install
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Installation should be easy and require only a few, commonly-available
packages.  See http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/INSTALL for details.

Hacking
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Source code is available via git:

	git clone git://80x24.org/ssoma

See below for contact info.

Contact
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We are happy to see feedback of all types via plain-text email.
Please email comments, user/developer discussion, patches, bug reports,
and pull requests to the public-inbox discussion list at:

    meta@public-inbox.org

Please Cc: all recipients when replying (this is not a requirement of
public-inbox or ssoma, but a good idea since we do not require
subscription).  This also makes it easier to rope in folks of
tangentially related projects we depend on (e.g. git developers on
git@vger.kernel.org).

You can subscribe via ssoma, LISTNAME is a name of your choosing:

    URL=git://public-inbox.org/meta
    LISTNAME=public-inbox

    # to initialize a maildir (this may be a new or existing maildir,
    # ssoma will not touch existing messages)
    # If you prefer mbox, use mbox:/path/to/mbox as the last argument
    ssoma add $LISTNAME $URL maildir:/path/to/maildir

    # read with your favorite MUA (only using mutt as an example)
    mutt -f /path/to/maildir # (or /path/to/mbox)

    # to keep your mbox or maildir up-to-date, periodically run the following:
    ssoma sync $LISTNAME

    # your MUA may modify and delete messages from the maildir or mbox,
    # this does not affect ssoma functionality at all

    # to sync all your ssoma subscriptions
    ssoma sync

    # You may wish to sync in your cronjob
    ssoma sync --cron

Mail repository format
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If you are uncomfortable running code in ssoma for any reason and
would rather read directly from the git repository, the following
document describes it:

    http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/ssoma_repository.txt

Again, note that this DOES NOT cover the public-inbox v2 repository
format.

Copyright
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Copyright 2013-2016 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Additional permission under GNU GPL version 3 section 7:

    If you modify this program, or any covered work, by linking or
    combining it with the OpenSSL project's OpenSSL library (or a
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    Corresponding Source for a non-source form of such a combination
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