Threaded discussion component

A discussion component is being developed for MKDoc which uses an email IMAP server as the back-end database.

Initally this will be set up so that members of the public who create user accounts on an MKDoc web site will be able to post messages to a web board style discussion forum. MKDoc documents will be able to have one or more discussions components per document and each discussion component will have a corresponding IMAP folder.

In the future it is planned that the discussion component will also be able to be used to create web archives of email list discussions.

As a part of this development, and on the basis that it is planned to enable all the metadata and data on a MKDoc web site to be served as RSS 1.0, an RSS Email Module is being developed.

The What is IMAP? document on the IMAP web site explains what IMAP is.