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Initial Implementation Choices
Ignore replying to “cookie” mails.
Perl (duh).
Only parse one mail folder.
Handle only the major list managers: MailMan, majordomo, ezelm.
Use Email::Simple, Email::Folder, Mail::Address.
Simple GUI using Gtk+ 2.
Notes:
Automating the sending of subscribe/unsubscribe messages saves a lot of hassle – a lot less typing!
I have all my subscription info messages in one mail folder devoted to that kind of thing.
The three list managers are pretty different, so hopefully that'll mean that it will be pretty easy to extend in the future.
Chose Email::Simple, because Mail::* seemed too heavyweight. Restricts us to RFC2822-compliant mail – OK – I think mail managers only generate compliant mail.
Other mailing list modules – didn't handle subs.