Some points on public-inbox

[Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>]

Hi,

over the last few days I've set up a public-inbox 1.1.0pre1 instance,
and noticed some things:

1) Makefile.PL only works properly when run from a checkout, not a tarball.
I replaced the beginning with

my @EXE_FILES = split("\n", `printf '%s\n' script/* 2>/dev/null`);
my $PM_FILES = `find lib 2>/dev/null`;

2) public-inbox-mda returns with status 1 when it gets a mail it
doesn't know where to deliver to.  I think status 67 would be more
appropriate (EX_NOUSER).

3) IPv6 support needs the Socket6 module, this is not stated anywhere.

4) I think it would be useful if the thread overview displayed
the name of the initial poster, could this be added as an option?

5) Is there a way for the HTML view to list all served lists?
/ results in 404.  How did you add links to meta/ and test/ on
https://public-inbox.org/ ?

6) I have a user account that uses .forward to call public-inbox-mda,
and use /etc/aliases to route the lists that are hosted primarily on
the server to it.  What's the best approach to do this for mailing
lists I only mirror? Subscribe with a "secret" second address to the
list, and add this second adress to publicinbox.<name>.address?
Or can public-inbox-mda also scan for List-Id etc and sort by it somehow?

Thank you very much for your work,
-- 
Leah Neukirchen  <leah@vuxu.org>  http://leah.zone