Tempura

Tempura is a wiki (or ) concept I started contemplating as I came to rely more and more on for all sorts of things.

Imagine, if you will, a wiki-like site that is a crunchy shell around an IMAP server (or a maildir, or a set of mbox files) for storage, and which relies completely on the portions of “mail” messages, using hyperlinks defined in them for navigation.

Yes, this means zero markup hassles, attachment support, and painless insertion of images into posts (it would only depend on how clever your is, since parsing and rendering it as HTML is pretty straightforward).

Like , and , this could leverage server-side caching to minimize the hassle of accessing the IMAP store and rendering RFC 2822 messages to HTML. It would also play nice with my approach, allow for easy, secure remote editing, let you delegate whole subtrees (via IMAP shared folders) to other people, etc., etc.

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